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RE: Invalid proxy settings

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:04:39 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Chandrakant Bagul -ERS, HCL Tech wrote:

>> I believe this is because if libcurl fails to parse/accept the proxy string
>> it won't get set and then it runs without proxy. I think that is the
>> correct behavior, but you should of course get an error code back when you
>> used setopt() to set that proxy. Did you?
>
> We didn't get any error when setopt() is used to set the invalid proxy, it
> always returns CURLE_OK.

Yes, right. I was being stupid - setopt() basically only copies the string and
does no parsing whatsoever. I could repeat your problem and I've now pushed a
fix for this with an associated test case (1329). Thanks for reporting!

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