On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:12:59 +0200 (CEST) Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Cosmin Luță wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me why with the new library the returned error code > > is > "Couldn't connect to server" (which seems wrong to me imo)? Is > > this exp > ected > behaviour? > > Your callback returns error as soon as possible, and that as soon as > poss ible was made slightly sooner in 7.20.1 since we made the > callback also get ca lled during the name resolve and connect. > > So, when you return that early you cancel the connecting and then it > isn' t crystal clear what the proper return code should be from > libcurl! > Ok, I agree that this is a special case, but I find "couldn't connect" a little misleading because the host is actually accessible and the problem is a local one (local abort by callback). Think the old return code was better, but anyway, this is what I wanted to know, I'll update my source code. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
