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Re: A small nudge to fix a frequent -X misuse?

From: Alex Bligh <alex_at_alex.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:57:14 +0100

Daniel,

On 11 Sep 2015, at 13:58, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> 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

Much prefer this.

-- 
Alex Bligh
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Received on 2015-09-11