curl -f verbose feature request

[melezhik]

Hi!

I need to see http body when htp request fails. curl -f does it job fine providing http status validation, but it suppress http body.

If any way to improve this somehow?

And yes, I need an actual exit code as curl -f does.

Thanks in advance

Alexey

[bagder]

-f implies you don't care about the body. If you still want the body. a work-around can be made with -w instead.

I'll be willing to discuss details on the curl-users mailing list, feature requests aren't really suitable in an issue tracker.

[melezhik]

Ok, I know how curl -f acts, and I know how curl -w acts as well. But boths cases ars not good, easy to use for me.

I need behavior like with curl -f , meaning correct exit code and in case I handle this - immediate break of my script. But I still need a body. Many modern rest API, web applicatios return vital information via body when return none successful http code. curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" is possible workaround but it still requires additional bash code to verify http status which is neither convenient nor good code style , I try to avoid such bashisms which eventually make code hard to maintain.

Ok, let's consider this like future request , I need a curl -f behavior plus http body at output, you don't have to change current inplimentation, we may talk about additional flag , something like --with-body or whatever proper for you. Is this a big deal ? Most part of job is done, I mean curl -f implementation already here , some extra prices is left, but thus would make curl more helpful 😄

[melezhik]

Let me know where I could repost it to suggestion, curl user mail list ?

[jay]

Yup, subscribe here.