On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, J. Cone wrote:

> The core-dump was because I was passing something silly to
> CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.

Ah, that is nastiness.

> The "Couldn't resolve host ..." that libCurl was trying to report was
> because I set CURLOPT_NETRC, and this apparently precludes specifying
> usernames and passwords in URLs.

It failed resolving a host name due to CURLOPT_NETRC? I don't understand how
that happened?

> Does anyone think that a ~don't care~ option for CURLOPT_NETRC would be
> useful? Given some hints about where to start, I can imagine doing the
> typing.

What would the "don't care" option for CURLOPT_NETRC atcually do?

The .netrc stuff is parsed by code in lib/netrc.c, the option is set in
lib/url.c and the option is used at two (other) places in lib/url.c.

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