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Re: Curl Enhancement: ignoring specific HTTP status codes while failing on others
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 15:43:10 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Xander Bos via curl-library wrote:
> In our application, there are certain HTTP error codes that we would like to
> handle ourselves, while we'd like libcurl to handle the rest. What I propose
> is to add a configuration option so that we can let these status codes fall
> through as if they returned CURLE_OK, while letting all other error codes be
> handled by curl. The option could be named something like:
> CURLOPT_HTTP_IGNORE_STATUSCODES, and given multiple long values that can be
> checked in the `http_should_fail` function.
Can you elaborate on why or how you came up with this requirement? It seems
very niche to me.
Also, can't you just do the special magic for this in your header callback and
thus avoid having to change libcurl all together?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 15:43:10 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Xander Bos via curl-library wrote:
> In our application, there are certain HTTP error codes that we would like to
> handle ourselves, while we'd like libcurl to handle the rest. What I propose
> is to add a configuration option so that we can let these status codes fall
> through as if they returned CURLE_OK, while letting all other error codes be
> handled by curl. The option could be named something like:
> CURLOPT_HTTP_IGNORE_STATUSCODES, and given multiple long values that can be
> checked in the `http_should_fail` function.
Can you elaborate on why or how you came up with this requirement? It seems
very niche to me.
Also, can't you just do the special magic for this in your header callback and
thus avoid having to change libcurl all together?
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