Drupal 6 simpletest curl patch ( curl spits output to stdout instead of saving to variable )

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diff --git a/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php b/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
index 9a9c360..fb67fba 100644
--- a/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
+++ b/sites/all/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
@@ -1310,6 +1310,11 @@ class DrupalWebTestCase extends DrupalTestCase {
 
     if (!isset($this->curlHandle)) {
       $this->curlHandle = curl_init();
+
+      if (empty($this->cookieFile)) {
+        $this->cookieFile = sys_get_temp_dir() . '/cookie.jar';
+      }
+
       $curl_options = $this->additionalCurlOptions + array(
         CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR => $this->cookieFile,
         CURLOPT_URL => $base_url,
@@ -1323,7 +1328,12 @@ class DrupalWebTestCase extends DrupalTestCase {
       if (isset($this->httpauth_credentials)) {
         $curl_options[CURLOPT_USERPWD] = $this->httpauth_credentials;
       }
-      curl_setopt_array($this->curlHandle, $this->additionalCurlOptions + $curl_options);
+
+      $result = curl_setopt_array($this->curlHandle, $this->additionalCurlOptions + $curl_options);
+      
+      if (!$result) {
+        throw new \UnexpectedValueException('One or more cURL options could not be set.');
+      }
 
       // By default, the child session name should be the same as the parent.
       $this->session_name = session_name();
@@ -1354,7 +1364,11 @@ class DrupalWebTestCase extends DrupalTestCase {
       // not overwritten by Curl.
       $curl_options[CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER][] = 'Expect:';
     }
-    curl_setopt_array($this->curlHandle, $this->additionalCurlOptions + $curl_options);
+
+    $result = curl_setopt_array($this->curlHandle, $this->additionalCurlOptions + $curl_options);
+    if (!$result) {
+      throw new \UnexpectedValueException('One or more cURL options could not be set.');
+    }
 
     // Reset headers and the session ID.
     $this->session_id = NULL;