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@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ FAQ 4.16 My HTTP POST or PUT requests are slow! 4.17 Non-functional connect timeouts on Windows 4.18 file:// URLs containing drive letters (Windows, NetWare) - 4.19 Why doesn't cURL return an error when the network cable is unplugged? + 4.19 Why doesn't curl return an error when the network cable is unplugged? 4.20 curl doesn't return error for HTTP non-200 responses! 4.21 Why is there a HTTP/1.1 in my HTTP/2 request? @@ -1083,18 +1083,18 @@ FAQ 4.18 file:// URLs containing drive letters (Windows, NetWare) - When using cURL to try to download a local file, one might use a URL + When using curl to try to download a local file, one might use a URL in this format: file://D:/blah.txt - You'll find that even if D:\blah.txt does exist, cURL returns a 'file + You'll find that even if D:\blah.txt does exist, curl returns a 'file not found' error. According to RFC 1738 (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt), file:// URLs must contain a host component, but it is ignored by most implementations. In the above example, 'D:' is treated as the - host component, and is taken away. Thus, cURL tries to open '/blah.txt'. + host component, and is taken away. Thus, curl tries to open '/blah.txt'. If your system is installed to drive C:, that will resolve to 'C:\blah.txt', and if that doesn't exist you will get the not found error. @@ -1107,9 +1107,9 @@ FAQ file://localhost/D:/blah.txt - In either case, cURL should now be looking for the correct file. + In either case, curl should now be looking for the correct file. - 4.19 Why doesn't cURL return an error when the network cable is unplugged? + 4.19 Why doesn't curl return an error when the network cable is unplugged? Unplugging a cable is not an error situation. The TCP/IP protocol stack was designed to be fault tolerant, so even though there may be a physical |