"continue-at -" in curlrc breaks wcurl

[stefanwascoding]

I have the following in my .curlrc:

# Resume a previous file transfer; "-" to automatically find the offset 
continue-at -

Because most of the time, that is what I want to happen by default.

However, due to curl/curl#15645 (which was a change in 8.11.1) this breaks usage of wcurl - I get the following messages when I try to use it.

curl: --continue-at is mutually exclusive with --no-clobber
curl: option --no-clobber: is badly used here

wcurl --curl-options=--clobber 'https://[...]' does not work either (not sure if it's the argument order, or if curl's argument processing does not like it). Neither does using -q/--disable work (i.e. wcurl --curl-options=--disable 'https://[...]')!

It would be great if wcurl could check curlrc for incompatible options (like continue-at), or support --disable or --clobber.
Or maybe there is another workaround for this kind of config?

// wcurl version: 2026.01.05
// curl version: 8.19.0

[samueloph]

Using wcurl --curl-options="--clobber --continue-at -" URL works, it seems like the problem only happens when continue-at - is set in .curlrc.

I'm inclined to report this as a feature request to curl, but more investigation is needed to understand what happens there, on the best case this is just a matter of changing the precedence order of how the arguments are evaluated for the case of "curl: --continue-at is mutually exclusive with --no-clobber", since it's firing even when "--clobber" is being set in a way which overrides "--no-clobber".

I'll look into this in the next few days as time allows, thanks for reporting it!