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Curl 8.6.0 doesn't allow unsetting of the -w field. #13144
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I came here to write about this too :)
I just merged a workaround for this: elm-tooling/elm-tooling-cli#128
In my case, this is the story (a bit of XKCD 1172 vibes here):
- Some people put
-w "\n"in their .curlrc. Is it a good idea? I don’t know 🤷. But this StackOverflow answer has 600+ upvotes: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14614203/2010616 - That “elm-tooling” thing I linked to uses curl to download stuff. The checksums fail with that extra newline appended.
- I added
-w ""as a workaround for people with-w "\n"in their .curlrc. Are there more things that people can set in .curlrc that will mess with my download script? Probably. Has anyone complained? None so far. - I don’t want to use
-qbecause if people configure proxy stuff in .curlrc I want that to be used.
Is it a bug? I’ll leave that to the maintainers to judge. Either way, here’s my workaround:
-w "%{stderr}"%{stderr}doesn’t print anything of itself, it just makes the rest of the-wstring get written to stderr. “The rest of the string” is nothing in this case. So in practice this has the same effect as the empty string, without being empty :)- Some people put
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on Mar 19, 2024
I did this
curl -w '' http://example.comI expected the following
The website to return with no additional output
curl/libcurl version
curl 8.6.0
operating system
Arch Linux 20240101.0.204074 (the latest arch linux)