Commit 31f18d27 authored by Jay Satiro's avatar Jay Satiro
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connect: improve the bind error message 

eg consider a non-existent interface eth8, curl --interface eth8

Before: curl: (45) Could not resolve host: eth8
After: curl: (45) Couldn't bind to 'eth8'

Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2104
Reported-by: Alfonso Martone
parent ed22d865

lib/connect.c

+4 −0
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@@ -412,6 +412,10 @@ static CURLcode bindlocal(struct connectdata *conn, 
    }



    if(done < 1) {

      /* errorbuf is set false so failf will overwrite any message already in

         the error buffer, so the user receives this error message instead of a

         generic resolve error. */

      data->state.errorbuf = FALSE;

      failf(data, "Couldn't bind to '%s'", dev);

      return CURLE_INTERFACE_FAILED;

    }