Bug#659591: curl: '--max-redirs -1' does not function as documented

[Michael Deegan]

Package: curl
Version: 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze1
Severity: normal

Expected behaviour:

As per manpage: "Set this option to -1 to make it limitless."

Actual behaviour:

Error: "curl: option --max-redirs: expected a proper numerical parameter"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (490, 'testing'), (470, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages curl depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-26 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcurl3 7.21.0-2.1+squeeze1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

curl recommends no packages.

curl suggests no packages.

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[Alessandro Ghedini]

forwarded 659591 http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2012-02/0098.html
found 659591 7.24.0-1
kthxbye

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:14:12PM +0800, Michael Deegan wrote:
> Expected behaviour:
>
> As per manpage: "Set this option to -1 to make it limitless."
>
> Actual behaviour:
>
> Error: "curl: option --max-redirs: expected a proper numerical parameter"

This also affects curl 7.24.0-1 in Sid. I've written a simple patch and
forwarded upstream. Thanks for reporting.

Cheers

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[Alessandro Ghedini]

tags 659591 fixed-upstream
kthxbye

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 03:45:35PM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 08:14:12PM +0800, Michael Deegan wrote:
> > Expected behaviour:
> >
> > As per manpage: "Set this option to -1 to make it limitless."
> >
> > Actual behaviour:
> >
> > Error: "curl: option --max-redirs: expected a proper numerical parameter"
>
> This also affects curl 7.24.0-1 in Sid. I've written a simple patch and
> forwarded upstream. Thanks for reporting.

The patch has been merged upstream now (commit e71ac0c).