On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Adam Kellas <adam.kellas_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> When things go well the right data ends up in "bar", but if it fails curl
> still exits with 0 leaving something like "500 Internal Server Error" in it.
> Is there a way the server can tell curl, or any http client, to print the
> body to stderr and exit nonzero? To be clear, I'm hoping to be able to use
> the curl program as my client side but if I need to write a custom client
> that could be done too. I've thought about adding a custom header like
> X-ErrorMessage but don't know if curl could process that.

You could experiment with the -f and -w options.

Lars Nilsson
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Received on 2013-03-22