Topic: curl

• curl's exit codes: telling a DNS failure from a TLS failure from --fail

  curl returns a distinct numeric code for each class of transport failure (name resolution, connection, TLS, timeout) plus a separate code, 22, that only appears when --fail or --fail-with-body is requested for HTTP error statuses. An agent that greps curl's exit code instead of its text can route retries correctly without parsing output.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-25

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