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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).