1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: fail 5Short: f 6Protocols: HTTP 7Help: Fail fast with no output on HTTP errors 8Category: important http 9Mutexed: fail-with-body 10Added: 4.0 11Multi: boolean 12See-also: 13 - fail-with-body 14 - fail-early 15Example: 16 - --fail $URL 17--- 18 19# `--fail` 20 21Fail fast with no output at all on server errors. This is useful to enable 22scripts and users to better deal with failed attempts. In normal cases when an 23HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an HTML document stating 24so (which often also describes why and more). This command line option 25prevents curl from outputting that and return error 22. 26 27This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful 28response codes slip through, especially when authentication is involved 29(response codes 401 and 407). 30
