My default aliases includes an alias that sets curl=curl -s
to keep curl requests quiet. More fool me.
I was trying to send a buffer using node that contained some null
values (0x00
) and actually zero visible characters and testing on the command line (as I do) using curl
would always fail with:
* Failed writing body (0 != 141)
* Closing connection 0
Without (my default) -s
I would have seen this:
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.
But -s
hides both progress and errors. So now I use curl=curl -s -S
to only hide progress and to keep errors.