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Video

Youtube: libcurl video tutorial: verbose

Set CURLOPT_VERBOSE to get more knowledge

In this episode we explore what happens when a transfer returns an error and how you as a libcurl user can go ahead to get more information and details about it.

The first step there is to set the CURLOPT_VERBOSE option which will “insider information” about what’s going on.

Other options to set to help out include CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER and or in some cases just properly investigating the response headers by setting CURLOPT_HEADER.

setup

Using the Makefile from the setup episode, we build the program and test it.