It has the advantage of not requiring a separate error buffer for each
simultaneous transfer.

 
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Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
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02/24/2003 05:23 PM
Please respond to curl-library

 
        To: "Juan F. Codagnone" <juam_at_arnet.com.ar>
        cc: libcurl Mailing list <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
        Subject: Re: libcurl: errors string to users

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Juan F. Codagnone wrote:

(Your mail had malformatted MIME headers)

> hi. i was looking at libcurl's functions, and i didn't find anything to
> convert CURLcode to a nice string to print to the user.

If you use CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, you'll get a human readable error
description
of errors that might occur.

> i attach you a script that extracts the comments from curl/curl.h and
> creates the function curl_strerror; and an example of the output
> (curlerr.c).

I honestly can't see the point in adding such a function.

But of course, I'm listening to what others have to say about it.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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