On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:14:48PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> I have a fix pending now that will make curl detect A) a numerical string
> that contains extra "garbage" like an ending "k" and B) not accept negative
> numbers for a whole slew of options where negative numbers don't make sense
> or are documented to work in any special way.

A thought:

If a user screws up and does what I did, i.e., "-C -k", will the -C actually
do a resume and will the -k be eaten up and not passed to curl?

If the -k is not passed in this case, I would prefer to see curl exit with
an error, stating that -k is an invalid argument to -C. At the same time,
telling the user: "use '-C -' for automatic coninuation/resume"

Having the -k option quietly eaten tends to lead users astray. It lead me
astray :-)

MB

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