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Re: [RFC/PATCH git] http: avoid empty error messages for some curl errors

From
Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date
Sep 6, 2011, 12:20 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.1109061023010.3841@tvnag.unkk.fr>
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<20110905222202.GA32071@elie>
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> +			if (!curl_errorstr[0])
> +				strlcpy(curl_errorstr,
> +					curl_easy_strerror(results.curl_result),
> +					sizeof(curl_errorstr));
(as libcurl hacker)

For the record, in libcurl we work on providing "extra" information in the error buffer when there is additional info to provide that would help. In some cases we deem there isn't (or we just to provide any) and then the generic error message is good enough and could indeed be used like this...

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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  1. http: avoid empty error messages for some curl errorsJonathan Nieder, Sep 5, 2011
  2. http: remove extra newline in error messageJonathan Nieder, Sep 5, 2011
  3. Daniel StenbergSep 6, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2011
  5. Daniel StenbergSep 6, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2011

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