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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3 | 28 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3 index 577202cf..b64a2a39 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms -.\" * are also available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. +.\" * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html. .\" * .\" * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell .\" * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is @@ -51,15 +51,33 @@ All .nf curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { - char error[CURL_ERROR_SIZE] + CURLcode res; + char errbuf[CURL_ERROR_SIZE]; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com"); /* provide a buffer to store errors in */ - curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, error); + curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, errbuf); - /* Perform the request */ - curl_easy_perform(curl); + /* set the error buffer as empty before performing a request */ + errbuf[0] = 0; + + /* perform the request */ + res = curl_easy_perform(curl); + + /* if the request did not complete correctly, show the error + information. if no detailed error information was written to errbuf + show the more generic information from curl_easy_strerror instead. + */ + if(res != CURLE_OK) { + size_t len = strlen(errbuf); + fprintf(stderr, "\\nlibcurl: (%d) ", res); + if(len) + fprintf(stderr, "%s%s", errbuf, + ((errbuf[len - 1] != '\\n') ? "\\n" : "")); + else + fprintf(stderr, "%s\\n", curl_easy_strerror(res)); + } } .fi .SH AVAILABILITY |