On 29 June 2016 at 23:07, Jeff Pohlmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The requested page does not exist, so wget does not download anything. > curl, on the other hand, will download the error page by default. > > Try the --fail option to curl and see if it makes any difference. It seems to make little difference. I verified that without --fail it downloads the error page, with --fail it doesn't. $ time wget -q -o/dev/null https://www.google.com/a.html 0.028u 0.000s 0:00.19 10.5% 0+0k 0+8io 0pf+0w $ time curl -s -o/dev/null --no-alpn https://www.google.com/a.html 0.108u 0.020s 0:00.34 35.2% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w $ time curl -s -o/dev/null --fail --no-alpn https://www.google.com/a.html 0.104u 0.028s 0:00.34 35.2% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w There is quite a bit of variation, so it's better to just look at the approximate magnitudes (--fail isn't always slower than without --fail...). From the command line wget is definitely more snappy, it's very noticable how much quicker it finishes. -Tor ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
