Re: Exit status not reflecting 404 with --fail
Ray Satiro via curl-users <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.curl.general |
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On 11/26/2023 9:51 PM, Timothe Litt via curl-users wrote:
>
> This reproducer appears to show a bug that prevents scripts from using
> the exit code to detect a 4xx failure:
>
> # curl -w "%{stderr}x:%{exitcode} r:%{response_code}\n" --fail
> https://www.google.com/nosuchuri >/dev/null
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
> Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left
> Speed
> 0 1570 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:-- 0
> curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
> x:22 r:404
>
> # echo $?
> 0
>
> The error message is correct, but since --fail is specified I expected
> $? to be 22. Note from the -w that the exitcode is set to 22, but is
> not delivered to the shell.
>
> The response code is 404.
>
> Same behavior if the (diagnostic) -w is omitted... (and/or -s added)
>
I can't reproduce this in Linux or in Windows. Can you show the verbose
output? What options are in your curlrc?
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