HTTP error-responses don't result in error code being returned by top level code

[quandt]

When issuing calls like this:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i ​http://somehost/somecontent.type someout.mkv
result=$?

If the connection is lost or something wonky happens out on the server, while the code detects the error and stops processing, there is no error code propogated on exit, ie result in the above will always = 0 (no error).

Simple way to replicate this is to issue "service apache2 restart" on a server you have access to where you are pulling the source from.

[Michael Niedermayer]

this requires "-xerror 1"
if thats not sufficient then its a bug in the specific demuxer which fails to return an error code
please open or reopen the ticket if xerror doesnt help, and provide information about the format that failed

[Michael Niedermayer]

there was a bug in http.c, ill post a fix to the ML in a moment
"-xerror 1" is still needed of course though

[Michael Niedermayer]

should be fixed in 3668701f96005f4f7fc3145c800911e39351c132