On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I wanted to see if anyone has opinions about a patch similar to the attached
> one. It will cause a warning get output if a pointless -X is used, to help
> the user figure this out. I also took the change to warn for -XHEAD as that
> will most likely cause a hanging connection in most cases.

Hi all,

I've now merged a modified version of this. I appreciated the feedback I got
on this so the differences from what I initially suggested are:

1 - the message is only shown in verbose mode

2 - the message is now called 'note:' and not a warning to make it less scary

I blogged about it too:

   http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/

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