>>>>> "DF" == Daniel Friesel <d...@finalrewind.org> writes:
DF> Hi, DF> 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?! DF> Because libcurl does not easily tell me, either. hmm, maybe they should make it easier... DF> I could write a custom header function to parse the non-number part out of the DF> status message, but I don't see why it's worth the effort. >> Some 404s are different than others! DF> Only in very special cases. DF> "HTTP 404" means file not found. As far as I know, HTTP Clients are not even DF> required to read the non-number part of that status line... at least most I know DF> don't care about it. DF> I see that WWWOffle is an exception to this, but wouldn't it be easier to make DF> it return a different status code for "I am offline and don't know if this DF> file exists or not"? 404 for unkown content seems somewhat ambiguous to me. I recall for Wikipedia and WWWOFFLE there was discussion that they considered that but ended up back with 404. DF> I may reconsider this later, but for now I won't add more precise status reports DF> to feh/curl. feh is not a web browser, the http support is more of a convenience DF> so you don't have to call wget && feh. Maybe somebody can file a wishlist with libcurl. OK, thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
