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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-15 23:44:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-16 10:42:51 +0100 |
| commit | 41b1f649bf63e3663fcf3d4a678fef37688e32b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4fe54a49307d30025a67a5c83807d857f4bcbeba /docs/cmdline-opts/fail.d | |
| parent | 81e61cda396da7eefb15dcf20b9e8be7ada37283 (diff) | |
cmdline-docs: more options converted over
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c46c571bf --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/fail.d @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Long: fail +Short: f +Protocols: HTTP +Help: Fail silently (no output at all) on HTTP errors +--- +Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done to +better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In normal cases +when an HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an HTML document +stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will prevent +curl from outputting that and return error 22. + +This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful +response codes will slip through, especially when authentication is involved +(response codes 401 and 407). |