c++ libcurl json rest

std::string ServerContent::DownloadJSON(std::string URL){       CURL *curl;    CURLcode res;    struct curl_slist *headers=NULL; // init to NULL is important     std::ostringstream oss;    headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Accept: application/json");      headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");    headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "charset: utf-8");     curl = curl_easy_init();    if (curl)     {        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, URL.c_str());        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPGET,1);         curl_easy_setopt(curl,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,writer);        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);        if (CURLE_OK == res)         {             char *ct;                     res = curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE, &ct);            if((CURLE_OK == res) && ct)                return *DownloadedResponse;        }    }    curl_slist_free_all(headers);}static std::string *DownloadedResponse;static int writer(char *data, size_t size, size_t nmemb, std::string *buffer_in){    // Is there anything in the buffer?      if (buffer_in != NULL)      {        // Append the data to the buffer            buffer_in->append(data, size * nmemb);        // How much did we write?           DownloadedResponse = buffer_in;        return size * nmemb;      }    return 0;}   

I think this has to do with the configuration on the HTTP server. First, you should be sending some type of indication of what type you're expecting, for example, adding an Accept header like this:

Accept: application/json

If you don't specify what you're expecting, the server may return the default HTML in the response header Content-Type, and that's what curl says to you.

Have you tried this approach from the tutorial code at the curl site?http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/sepheaders.html