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Re: Making lack of cookie support more obvious

From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen_at_fabiankeil.de>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 16:40:18 +0200

Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 May 2014, Fabian Keil wrote:
>
> > I'd prefer it to fail after checking $? (bad_news() is a die() wrapper), but
> > it actually failed in die_unless_page_contains_pattern() and thus it looked
> > like the server changed the login procedure (again).
>
> Are you suggesting a patch similar to this (see attachment)?

Yes, but in addition to the message I think curl should also exit
with CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN without actually making the request.

I haven't tested the patch, but it looks to me like curl would still
make the request, ignore cookies and possibly exit with CURLE_OK.

Fabian

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Received on 2014-05-05