On Tue, 8 Aug 2023, FC Stegerman wrote:
$ curl ‐‐connect‐timeout
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xn--connecttimeout-462hah
$ curl ‐‐connect‐timeout 2 -I example.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xn--connecttimeout-462hah
Those dashes in there are not ascii minuses, they are unicode e2 80 90 (when
copied from the web page for this report), also known as Unicode Character
'HYPHEN' (U+2010).
Since they are not ascii minus (ascii byte code 45), they do not specify the
command line option --connect-timeout but that sequence of characters is
instead treaded as a "URL", which is converted from its unicode into punycode
before resolved.
And on and on. This is not the bug it is made out to be.
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/ daniel.haxx.se
