On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Craig Davison wrote:

> Actually I was thinking that curl needs error checking in (I believe)
> Curl_getFormData, which does the actual reading from the file. You'd
> probably have to percolate the error all the way back to curl_easy_perform
> and add some new CURLE_ error types for the various I/O things that could
> go wrong.
>
> That's assuming curl doesn't do this somewhere already...

No it doesn't do this already.

At lib/formdata.c:1179, it clearly just adds an empty field when it can't
read the given file. I think CURLE_READ_ERROR is a suitable error code for
this situation.

I'll have a go at this soon, I'll just put together a 7.9.6 release first...

Thanks for your input.

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