We end the year with 6 more #curl command line options than we had last new year's eve; now at 273 in total.
OOI, how many command line options to curl have ever been removed? If you keep that statistic, of course.
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@wouter we have not broken a curl command line since 2006, which means no option has been removed since then...
@bagder I don't even dare to think of all the various possible STATES all those options might create
@km yeah, it's an insane combination explosion that's a testing challenge and of course an explanation for continued bugfixes...
@bagder actually I'd like an option of mine, too, but I can't dare to ask about one 😅
--max-filesize will not even start the transfer if it knows that file size will be beyond the limit. if file size is not known, the transfer will start, but abort once limit is reached. what would be somewhat iseful is an option to allow fetching until limit also if size is in advance known to be larger than limit.
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Let me know when you get to 613!
@RealGene at the current rate that would happen roughly in July 2058 😎
@bagder How many CVEs have there been because the number of curl options no longer fits into an unsigned 8-bit variable?
@liw there's nothing internally that counts the options!
@bagder Just in case I'm making my Rust program to manage curl options use a u128 type to count them! At the current rate of growth, that'll last me at least several years.
