#humans make me sad.

#CURL is my lovely gem, a masterpiece they ever created, but what do I see on their documentation pages? This:

CURLcode res = ...
if(!res) {
...

That's how they check for success, meow.

On, no. Meow! Meow! Meow!

And this does not discourage humans to write such posts

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/27…

where they say common failures are:
1. Skipping the documentation!
2. Failure to check return codes

meow ((((

#programming

Common mistakes when using libcurl

I've been traveling this road for a while. Here's my collection of 15 of the most common mistakes and issues people will run into when writing applications and services that use libcurl.

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