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daniel:// stenberg://
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2 months ago • •

daniel:// stenberg://

2 months ago • •


"My car has a failure" in my #inbox

daniel.haxx.se/email/2025-06-2…

Hello Daniel.
 
I am a owner of one of the Opel Astra vehicles in Trinidad
and Tobago. My car has a failure, looking like not have a
gasoline. Is what that say in the electronical gauge in the
car, but the tank is full. And never started when I tried to
do it.
 
My car is automatic and has a presence key. To start the
engine is pushing the bottom.
 
This is the serial number for this car [redacted].
 
Let me know what you recommended to do.
 
Regards.
[redacted]

Daniel Stenberg -- Email

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
curl can fix his car!
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Jan Johannesson

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
You’ve got a job! 😺
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Seb-Solon

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
So that qualify in the "hardware on what curl can run" list right?
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in reply to Seb-Solon • 2 months ago • •
@Seb_Solon lots of head units run Android nowadays, so it's reasonable for curl or libcurl to be in there too.
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daniel:// stenberg://
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in reply to draeath • 2 months ago • •
@draeath @Seb_Solon its in many more cars too, not only the Android ones. A few years ago, curl was used in some 22 well-known car brands. Virtually every car made in the last few years run curl.
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Marius Biebel

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
well at least he's nice. 😅
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
I'm dying to know
- what the problem was
- how did this person end up emailing you (are gasoline sensors queried with curl in Opel Astra??)
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in reply to buherator • 2 months ago • •
@buherator I believe said person had a problem and while desperately trying to find someone to contact, they find my email address in a screen on their infotainment system. A screen listing the curl license (among many others).
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Sounds plausible, although that sounds like lots of work to dig up an unrelated e-mail address :)
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in reply to buherator • 2 months ago • •

@buherator yes but A) they don't get that it is unrelated B) I can't figure out any other explanation.

I mean, I do get these emails every now and then so this is also far from the first time.

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
I first discovered your blog through the „I have Toyota Corolla“ post and just noticed you’re actually keeping an email archive. This is the most enjoyable thing I’ve seen today and I’d like to thank you for it 😅
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in reply to Marcus Kida • 2 months ago • •
@kimar it's my service to society 😁
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
has there even been one of those misdirected emails thay asked about an issue you happened to know how to solve, even though it was not curl-related?
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in reply to Wolf480pl • 2 months ago • •
@wolf480pl I can't recall any such, no ☹️
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Marcus Rejås

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
well you'll have to accept that you are the King and reply to him nicely. 😄
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Olaf Bohlen

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
HTTP 500 😂
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Who cares if his car has a failure? My elbow aches!!!! 🤪
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trusty falxter 🧠
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
They should add "-k" in the option list of the line with subprocess.call(["curl", "https://tankfloat.local/status"]) in tank-display.py. Presumably the certificate has simply expired. *scnr*
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
in his defense, the car probably /is/ running curl somewhere
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
hey I have a problem with my dog. There is a lady dog in the neighborhood and he keeps on chasing her, specially while she is on heat. Then I use the GPS on his collar to track him. In the App I found your address, so you must be the right person to ask: how can I train my dog not to chase female dogs?
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
I don't get it. What is the joke here? Explain it to me like I'm stupid
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in reply to Trash 🔞 • 2 months ago • •
@superviviansunshine the car probably has the cURL license in the mediaplayer or elsewhere, which contains @bagder 's e-mail address, so he gets these random car support requests from time to time. Several more in his blog
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in reply to petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 • 2 months ago • •
@peturdainn @superviviansunshine yeah, a slightly longer version of the same explanation is here: daniel.haxx.se/my-name-in-prod…

daniel.haxx.se -- My name in products

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@peturdainn not what I meant
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
My brother-in-law knows someone who can fix it. And he is in Trinidad right now as that is where my wife’s family are. From reading the email I’m guessing he is from Venezuela - loads of people escaping from Maduro.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
if you renamed curl to something starting with q (or anything further down the alphabet...), I wonder if you would get less of these mails :blobcatthinkingsmirk2:
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Of course, it's an Opel xD
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Free as in you will never be freed from the life you've chosen.
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Melroy van den Berg

in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
I bet a curl command would be able to fix his issue.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Perfect coffee table book content. Just a bunch of confused emails.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
my wife says the we (programmers) are the root of all bad things 😉
So I usually just respond, ”yes, have you tried to turn it off & on again”?
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •
Here's the usual solution:
Remove everything from the back of the car and then...
... reboot.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • 2 months ago • •

Maybe there's a curl command for that.

Does his ~car~ motorized computer have an HTTP API?

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