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Author #35616 [NEW]: mistake in documentation of CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
humbads at alum dot mit dot edu

2005-12-09, 7:02 pm

From: humbads at alum dot mit dot edu
Operating system: Windows XP SP2
PHP version: Irrelevant
PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem
Bug description: mistake in documentation of CURLOPT_FAILONERROR

Description:
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In the curl_setopt documentation page, under CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, it says
"TRUE to fail silently if the HTTP code returned is greater than 300..."
It should say "greater than or equal to 400" not "greater than 300".

Expected result:
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HTTP status codes >= 400 are errors according to RFC2616:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

The option's behavior is correct. When I ran a simple HTTP GET with
against a page that returns 301 (redirect), with CURLOPT_FAILONERROR set
to true, the error code returned is zero (no error).

If you look in the libcurl documentation of error codes, it says,
"CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR (22) This is returned if CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
is set TRUE and the HTTP server returns an error code that is >= 400."

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html

However, if you look in the set_opt function's documentation, it says,
"CURLOPT_FAILONERROR A non-zero parameter tells the library to fail
silently if the HTTP code returned is equal to or larger than 300..."

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html

This is probably wrong. I have contacted libcurl to update this.



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