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Re: curl error messages

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:35:47 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 chris.m.zanelli_at_transport.qld.gov.au wrote:

> I get lots of different error messages back from curl and they are all
> good. Sometimes I get 127 for the return code and the transaction has
> worked fine. We use https to a weberver and get a valid result but the
> return code is 127 ? Why is this ?

A bug.

> Also less important the -m/--max-time timeout option doesn't work, so we
> coded around this. We use curl 7.8.1

I actually considered counting the number of releases we have released since
7.8.1, but they were so many I lost count.

You're using a very very old version of curl (dated August 2001), it has
numerous known bugs. Consider upgrading to a recent version and re-try.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-06-06