«--no-remote-name» does not work

[u20221022]

I did this

0. curl.exe --manual | FindStr /C:"or --no-remote-name" /N
   3957: all has been used, you must use "-o -" or --no-remote-name.

1. curl.exe --head --output "head.txt" --no-remote-name "https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe"
   % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
   Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
   0 3269k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
   Warning: Got more output options than URLs

2. curl.exe --head --output "head.txt" --remote-name "https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe"
   % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
   Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
   0 3269k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
   Warning: Got more output options than URLs

3. curl.exe --head --output "head.txt" "https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe"
   % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
   Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
   0 3269k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0

4. curl.exe --head --output "head.txt" --remote-name-all --no-remote-name "https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe"
   % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
   Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
   0 3269k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
   Warning: Got more output options than URLs

I expected the following

a) The capital letter «O» in case №0 («-O, --remote-name», not «-o, --output <file>»).
b) The same but without warnings in cases №1 and №4.

curl/libcurl version

7.88.0
[curl -V output]
curl 7.88.0 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/7.88.0 OpenSSL/3.0.8 (Schannel) zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.4 WinIDN libssh2/1.10.0 nghttp2/1.52.0 ngtcp2/0.13.1 nghttp3/0.8.0 libgsasl/2.2.0
Release-Date: 2023-02-15
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli gsasl HSTS HTTP2 HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz MultiSSL NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

operating system

MS Windows 10

[bagder]

I see nothing in the man page that says --no-remote-name should work. The problem is rather that it doesn't complain about the option being used like that.

[u20221022]

I see nothing in the man page that says --no-remote-name should work.

Repeat (with some extension) the case № 0:
curl.exe --manual | FindStr /C:"after --remote-name-" /C:"or --no-remote-name" /N
3956: you want to disable that for a specific URL after --remote-name-
3957: all has been used, you must use "-o -" or --no-remote-name.

Remove «--no-remote-name» from manual, if it is wrong.

The problem is rather that it doesn't complain about the option being used like that.

Sorry, I do not understand your English. Who is not complain?

[bagder]

I think the use case 1 and 4 are very strange so I even though the warnings are a little odd, I don't even know what the right action would be.

[jzakrzewski]

I'd just error-out if someone gives multiple options for the output file name.

[u20221022]

the use case 1 and 4 are very strange

Recently, many errors have been found in the behavior of options. Therefore, I just reinsure myself by explicitly indicating all negative options. Do you remember the three states of the binary option: «--clobber», «--no-clobber» and «» (i.e. without option)?

Update. Case №5 («--remote-name-all» in case №4 is changed to «--NO-remote-name-all»):
curl.exe --head --output "head.txt" --no-remote-name-all --no-remote-name "https://www.autohotkey.com/download/ahk-install.exe"
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 3269k 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:02 --:--:-- 0
Warning: Got more output options than URLs