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CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3: Clarify it may not be written to on error #2190

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jay commented Dec 23, 2017

  • Advise the user to set the error buffer to an empty string before each
    request.

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-12/0068.html
Reported-by: Martin Galvan
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CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER.3: Clarify it may not be written to on error
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- Advise the user to set the error buffer to an empty string before each
  request.

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-12/0068.html
Reported-by: Martin Galvan
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jay commented Dec 23, 2017

alternately we could change this in the library to zero it out before each request, but I'm concerned we may miss some error code since errors can happen anywhere
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I think this improves the documentation of how it currently works.
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jay commented Jan 17, 2018

I'm going to back away from the It's advised to set the error buffer to an empty string before each request.. Instead I think it seems practical that the library would zero it for the user on perform.
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bagder commented Jan 17, 2018

@jay: that will indeed be the most user-friendly approach!
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To offer applications a more defined behavior.

Bug #2190
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To offer applications a more defined behavior, we clear the buffer as
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bagder commented Mar 12, 2018

See #2377 for a take at making it cleared early on.
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