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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 | 8 |
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 24471d517..1305901b0 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ normal cases when a 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-succesful +response codes will slip through, especially when authentication is involved +(response codes 401 and 407). + If this option is used twice, the second will again disable silent failure. .IP "--ftp-account [data]" (FTP) When an FTP server asks for "account data" after user name and password diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 index 141323cf6..40ec28826 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 @@ -344,6 +344,14 @@ when showing the progress meter and displaying \fICURLOPT_VERBOSE\fP data. A non-zero parameter tells the library to fail silently if the HTTP code returned is equal to or larger than 400. The default action would be to return the page normally, ignoring that code. + +This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-succesful +response codes will slip through, especially when authentication is involved +(response codes 401 and 407). + +You might get some amounts of headers transferred before this situation is +detected, like for when a "100-continue" is received as a response to a +POST/PUT and a 401 or 407 is received immediately afterwards. .SH NETWORK OPTIONS .IP CURLOPT_URL The actual URL to deal with. The parameter should be a char * to a zero |