public bool Fail { get; set; }

When HTTP servers fail to fulfill a request, they will often return an HTML page with the error information to the client. In situations like these, curl's default behavior is to send the content of the error page to

stdout

and exit with a zero exit code, indicating success. While this may be fine at the command line, it's quite problematic in scripts where it can lead to false positives. Setting this property to , tells curl to treat HTTP errors (4xx and 5xx) as failed operations and to exit with status code

22

instead of

0

. Cake will then pick up the non-successful status code and turn it into a runtime exception. Note that, according to curl's documentation, this method is not completely fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful response codes (especially those related to authentication, like

401

and

407

) will slip through.