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Re: two different error codes,

From: Pavan Kumar Kakunoori <kpavan77_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:34:59 +0530

Thanks for the response.Lets suppose we removed a file intensionally and
tried to test the same with ftp and sftp respectively. Ideally the same
error code should be reported. But here it is not.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:38:41PM +0530, Pavan Kumar Kakunoori wrote:
> > Hello Team, When the application is into error state, where if the file
> is not
> > found, we observed a vague behaviour. The cURL lib is returning two
> distinct
> > error codes depending on if application is using ftp or sftp. for example
> if
> > application is using ftp the lib is returning error code as
> > CURLE_FTP_COULDNT_RETR_FILE and if application is using sftp the lib is
> > returning error code as CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND. Why is this
> > descrimination? why cant lib through one error code?
>
> ftp transfers will also return CURLE_REMOTE_FILE_NOT_FOUND in some cases,
> and sftp will return CURLE_REMOTE_ACCESS_DENIED in other cases. It
> just depends on which error code is returned by the server and in which
> state the problem occurred.
>
> >>> Dan
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