On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Paul Gordon wrote:

> Thanks much, yes the --trace-ascii seemed to work just fine. We were
> looking for the line "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" as a form of sanity checking.

Right, but you were checking the response body and the "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" is
not part of the body. Use the -i option and you'll get the headers included in
the output!

> <= Recv data, 5 bytes (0x5)
> 0000: 0
> 0003:

See? No body at all so that's there's no output file created. There is no
contents to put in the file!

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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