Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:27:37AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Why don't you tell the user what the error message was?!
Because libcurl does not easily tell me, either. I could write a custom header function to parse the non-number part out of the status message, but I don't see why it's worth the effort. > Some 404s are different than others! Only in very special cases. "HTTP 404" means file not found. As far as I know, HTTP Clients are not even required to read the non-number part of that status line... at least most I know don't care about it. I see that WWWOffle is an exception to this, but wouldn't it be easier to make it return a different status code for "I am offline and don't know if this file exists or not"? 404 for unkown content seems somewhat ambiguous to me. I may reconsider this later, but for now I won't add more precise status reports to feh/curl. feh is not a web browser, the http support is more of a convenience so you don't have to call wget && feh.
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