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impact of tweaked error codes?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:15:55 +0200 (MET DST)

Hey fellows!

I need some input from actual users of libcurl here.

I'm thinking about correcting a long-lived confusion among the error codes in
libcurl:

 CURLE_WRITE_ERROR
   This error is returned *both* for errors that occurs when writing received
   data to a local file, as well as when we get problems writing data to a
   remote server. That is confusing. I want to add CURLE_SEND_ERROR for the
   latter error.

 CURLE_READ_ERROR
   This error is similarly returned *both* for errors when reading a local
   file, as well as when getting problems when reading network data. That is
   confusing. I want to add CURLE_RECV_ERROR for the latter error.

The curl.1 (curl man page) describes these errors pretty vaguely, but
mentions the file versions of the problems. That's why I opted to let them
remain and move the network oriented errors to the codes.

Would this be a (too) big impact on programs using libcurl?

(I'm currently sitting and writing a libcurl-errors.3 man page, hence the
focus on this right now.)

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2002-04-09