René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Inconsistencies between platforms.","articleBody":"There seems to be some inconsistencies on how the result is returned between Windows, Linux cURL backend, and Linux OpenSSL backend.\r\n\r\nCase 1: `https.request(\"http://site_that_gives_timeout\"))` and `https.request(\"http://invalid.hostname\")`\r\n-----\r\n\r\nWith Windows and Linux OpenSSL backend, all of those return 400 status code. Linux with cURL backend return 0 status code.\r\n\r\nCase 2: `https.request(\"htt://invalid.protocol\")`\r\n-----\r\n\r\nWith Windows and Linux OpenSSL backend, Lua 5.1 **crashes** while LuaJIT prints `C++ exception` thanks to [LuaJIT exception interoperability](https://luajit.org/extensions.html#exceptions). Linux cURL backend returns 0.\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/MikuAuahDark","@type":"Person","name":"MikuAuahDark"},"datePublished":"2021-12-13T02:57:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/1/lua-https/issues/1"}