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1.1     ! misho       1: Long: fail
        !             2: Short: f
        !             3: Protocols: HTTP
        !             4: Help: Fail silently (no output at all) on HTTP errors
        !             5: ---
        !             6: Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done to
        !             7: better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In normal cases
        !             8: when an HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an HTML document
        !             9: stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will prevent
        !            10: curl from outputting that and return error 22.
        !            11: 
        !            12: This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful
        !            13: response codes will slip through, especially when authentication is involved
        !            14: (response codes 401 and 407).