Gisle Vanem provided code that displays an error message when the (libidn

based) IDN conversion fails. This is really due to a missing suitable
function in the libidn API that I hope we can remove once libidn gets a
function like this.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 3f40b6b61..c0921ced4 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ void idn_free (void *ptr); /* prototype from idn-free.h, not provided by
 #include "progress.h"
 #include "cookie.h"
 #include "strequal.h"
+#include "strerror.h"
 #include "escape.h"
 #include "strtok.h"
 #include "share.h"
@@ -2078,8 +2079,8 @@ static void fix_hostname(struct connectdata *conn, struct hostname *host)
     infof (data, "Input domain encoded as `%s'\n",
            stringprep_locale_charset ());
     if (rc != IDNA_SUCCESS)
-      infof(data, "Failed to convert %s to ACE; IDNA error %d\n",
-            host->name, rc);
+      infof(data, "Failed to convert %s to ACE; %s\n",
+            host->name, Curl_idn_strerror(conn,rc));
     else {
       host->encalloc = ace_hostname;
       /* change the name pointer to point to the encoded hostname */