debugging config files options

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
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Hello,

Sometimes users accidentally get "funny" or unexplainable behavior from curl 
command lines when they have options added in their .curlrc or other config 
files.

The use of .curlrc is a little subtle and sometimes hard to spot and I have 
pondered on what we can do to make it easier to debug or trace what options 
are being used in such config files.

A challenge is that ~/.curlrc is read and parsed before any command line 
options. So how do we active the config file debug mode?

1. If -v or --verbose is used as the *first option* on the command line.

2. If the environment variable named CURL_CONFIG_TRACE is set to 1.

Or can we come up with a better way?

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