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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2006-03-15 21:21:35 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2006-03-15 21:21:35 +0000
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slightly edited explanation for -f/--fail by the help of Kjell Ericson
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.IP "-f/--fail"
(HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
like this to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In
-normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns a HTML
-document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will
-prevent curl from outputting that and fail silently instead.
+normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an
+HTML document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag
+will prevent curl from outputting that and return error 22.
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable silent failure.
.IP "--ftp-account [data]"