Re: getting http return code

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:08 PM Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <
curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 May 2020, Jürgen Weber via curl-users wrote:
>
> > many people want to get the http return code from curl to use it in a
> > script. There are many complicated solutions that parse out the code
> from
> > other curl output. The most daring one I found suggests to add a second
> > stdout: https://superuser.com/a/862395
> >
> > I think an easier solution would have to be supported by curl:
> >
> > --return-http-status-code-as-exit-code
>
> I don't understand why we'd need that (and I would have a problem with
> that
> particular approach). In most use cases, you'll be fine with something
> simple
> like this:
>
> code=`curl -w '%{response_code}' -o saved $URL`
>
>
>
I would add that return codes are between 0 (success) and 255.

How do you return HTTP code 404 ?

-----------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-users
Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
Received on 2020-05-06