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Re: curl_easy_getinfo() for CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE does not work for ICY URLs

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:28:13 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, centrio_at_gmail.com wrote:

>>> Are you seriously saying that "401 Service Unavailable" should be equal to
>>> 200 OK? It sounds a bit strange in my ears...
>
> Yes I am saying this, since I am not aware of any method by which I can get
> this message as a header callback instead of a data callback.

True, there isn't.

>>> Because there's no support for that kind of stunt and I don't even
>>> understand why you thought so in the first place. The "ICY" thing is an
>>> abomination as it is already, let's not continue that silliness any
>>> further.
>
> Since HTTP 400.. response can be treated as HTTP 200 OK,

Yes, there's a "hack option" available in libcurl that makes it accept a set
of strings instead of the "200 OK" that a HTTP server responds for OK.

> So why not ICY 400.

Because the list is only for "200 OK" equivalents.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-03-30