On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mohun Biswas wrote:

> When a URL describes a port with nothing listening on it, the error message
> returned via libcurl is non-obvious:
>
> % curl 'http://mailhost:8000/some/url'
> curl: (7) Connect failed; Operation now in progress
>
> What operation?

errno is EINPROGRESS I believe.

> And nothing's in progress at this point; it's failed and is
> not retrying. BTW, the behavior is somewhat different for localhost:
>
> % curl 'http://localhost:8000/some/url'
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost IP number 1: Connection refused

Yes, this difference is due to the different value in errno.

> This makes more sense except for the "IP number 1".

It is IP number one that fails. You can make localhost resolve to multiple
IPs, and then you might spot a difference.

That 'ip number' text is not present in the current CVS version anymore
though.

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