CURLOPT_FAILONERROR - request failure on HTTP response >= 400

Added in curl 7.1

0, do not fail on error

A long parameter set to 1 tells the library to fail the request if the HTTP code returned is equal to or larger than 400. The default action would be to return the page normally, ignoring that code. This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful response codes slip through, especially when authentication is involved (response codes 401 and 407). You might get some amounts of headers transferred before this situation is detected, like when a "100-continue" is received as a response to a POST/PUT and a 401 or 407 is received immediately afterwards. When this option is used and an error is detected, it causes the connection to get closed and CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR is returned.

int main(void) { CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); if(curl) { CURLcode ret; curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/"); curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1L); ret = curl_easy_perform(curl); if(ret == CURLE_HTTP_RETURNED_ERROR) { /* an HTTP response error problem */ } } }

CURLOPT_FAILONERROR - request failure on HTTP response >= 400

This functionality affects http only

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).

CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE(3), CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES(3), CURLOPT_KEEP_SENDING_ON_ERROR(3) libcurl 2025-06-16 CURLOPT_FAILONERROR(3)

#include <curl/curl.h> CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, long fail);