On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>> The %HOME/_curlrc is automatically loaded and parsed. That's why the "curl:
>> (43) A libcurl function was given a bad argument" was so mysterious to me.
>
> Ouch, yeah I completely understand that. I'll see what I can do to improve
> that error message/identification.

Here's a stab at presenting a warning to aid users detect syntax problems in
the config files. It sees unquoted white spaces in the parameter and warns
about them.

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  / daniel.haxx.se

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