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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-09-11 22:03:47 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2018-09-13 08:04:49 +0200
commitddb06ffc0f680322ce746c6e8d524dee4de84955 (patch)
treef8ce7155cebecb080c2377ec890e45d5c6fda198 /src/tool_urlglob.c
parent92f9db17466c4e28998a5cf849c7a861093eff23 (diff)
downloadcurl-ddb06ffc0f680322ce746c6e8d524dee4de84955.tar.gz
urlglob: improve error message
to help user understand what the problem is Reported-by: Daniel Shahaf Fixes #2763 Closes #2977
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tool_urlglob.c')
-rw-r--r--src/tool_urlglob.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/tool_urlglob.c b/src/tool_urlglob.c
index cb87706cc..e4a5c33db 100644
--- a/src/tool_urlglob.c
+++ b/src/tool_urlglob.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
* | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
* \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
*
* This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
* you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -459,18 +459,19 @@ CURLcode glob_url(URLGlob **glob, char *url, unsigned long *urlnum,
*urlnum = amount;
else {
if(error && glob_expand->error) {
- char text[128];
+ char text[512];
const char *t;
if(glob_expand->pos) {
- snprintf(text, sizeof(text), "%s in column %zu", glob_expand->error,
- glob_expand->pos);
+ snprintf(text, sizeof(text), "%s in URL position %zu:\n%s\n%*s^",
+ glob_expand->error,
+ glob_expand->pos, url, glob_expand->pos - 1, " ");
t = text;
}
else
t = glob_expand->error;
/* send error description to the error-stream */
- fprintf(error, "curl: (%d) [globbing] %s\n", res, t);
+ fprintf(error, "curl: (%d) %s\n", res, t);
}
/* it failed, we cleanup */
glob_cleanup(glob_expand);