On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Dan Fandrich wrote:

(this is actually curl the command line tool talk, not libcurl)

> If something like that is added, the option setting will have to be more
> intelligent. Right now, many options are set blindly to default values,
> regardless of whether they were specified on the command line or not. If the
> program errs out on the first setopt error, then curl would always abort
> when it run with a libcurl that has been compiled without support for HTTP,
> for example, since it sets some HTTP options regardless of what kind of URL
> is specified on the command line.

... which would introduce something that isn't around today. By deliberately
avoiding figuring out what protocol that might be used, curl better allows
whatever protocols the library might support.

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