On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:34:14 +0100 (CET), Daniel Stenberg
<daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

>
>> $ curl http://www.google.com
>> curl: (55) Send failure: Bad address
>>
>> Why does this happen?
>
>It means send() failed and the shown error message was what the system offered
>as explanation. It seems to be when EFAULT is found in errno.
>
>I'm not sure what makes that happen. What curl version on what OS? Does it
>happen all the time?

$ curl --version
curl 7.16.3 (i686-pc-cygwin) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8g zlib/1.2.3
libssh2/0.
15-CVS
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps scp sftp
Features: Largefile NTLM SSL libz

I use it under cygwin.

This issue only happens occasionally.

Regards.

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