From fad96046138a8fa506589218cd871cc3848d1169 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:49:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] curl: customrequest_helper: deal with NULL custom method

---
 src/tool_helpers.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/tool_helpers.c b/src/tool_helpers.c
index f17d09f509..e264ac795c 100644
--- a/src/tool_helpers.c
+++ b/src/tool_helpers.c
@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ void customrequest_helper(struct OperationConfig *config, HttpReq req,
     "POST"
   };
 
-  if(curl_strequal(method, dflt[req])) {
+  if(!method)
+    ;
+  else if(curl_strequal(method, dflt[req])) {
     notef(config->global, "Unnecessary use of -X or --request, %s is already "
           "inferred.\n", dflt[req]);
   }