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Re: curl and http redirects; possible security implications

From: Alex Bligh <alex_at_alex.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:20:44 +0100

--On 24 April 2010 11:13:39 +0200 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

>> My worry is that people will log stderr in any sensibly written script,
>> and thus the next thing they will ask for is a switch to silence the
>> log. If we give them that, we might as well give them a switch to turn
>> the check off.
>
> I firmly believe we should do it either way and not both. Ie we either
> allow misspelled/upcoming protocol names or we bail out on them.

OK. So if I drop the ~ modifier, but make it warn rather than error
on unknown protocols, you will take the patch?

-- 
Alex Bligh
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Received on 2010-04-24