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<!-- Manpage converted by man2html 3.0.1 -->
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curl - transfer a URL
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</PRE>
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2><PRE>
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<B>curl</B> <B>[options]</B> <I>[URL...]</I>
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</PRE>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2><PRE>
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<B>curl</B> is a client to get documents/files from or send docu-
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ments to a server, using any of the supported protocols
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(HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE).
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The command is designed to work without user interaction
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or any kind of interactivity.
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curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support,
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user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:)
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connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more.
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</PRE>
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<H2>URL</H2><PRE>
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The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You'll find a
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detailed description in RFC 2396.
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You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing
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part sets within braces as in:
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http://site.{one,two,three}.com
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or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using
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[] as in:
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ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
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ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with lead-
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ing zeros)
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ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
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It is possible to specify up to 9 sets or series for a
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URL, but no nesting is supported at the moment:
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http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol-
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ume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html
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You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line.
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They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the speci-
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fied order.
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Curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file
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transfers, so that getting many files from the same server
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will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This improves
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speed. Of course this is only done on files specified on a
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single command line and cannot be used between separate
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curl invokes.
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</PRE>
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2><PRE>
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-a/--append
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writing it. If the file doesn't exist, it will be
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created.
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If this option is used twice, the second one will
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disable append mode again.
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-A/--user-agent <agent string>
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(HTTP) Specify the User-Agent string to send to the
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HTTP server. Some badly done CGIs fail if its not
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set to "Mozilla/4.0". To encode blanks in the
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string, surround the string with single quote
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marks. This can also be set with the -H/--header
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flag of course.
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If this option is set more than once, the last one
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will be the one that's used.
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-b/--cookie <name=data>
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(HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a
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cookie. It is supposedly the data previously
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received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line.
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The data should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1;
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NAME2=VALUE2".
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If no '=' letter is used in the line, it is treated
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as a filename to use to read previously stored
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cookie lines from, which should be used in this
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session if they match. Using this method also acti-
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vates the "cookie parser" which will make curl
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record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if
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you're using this in combination with the
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-L/--location option. The file format of the file
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to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers
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or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.
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<B>NOTE</B> that the file specified with -b/--cookie is
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only used as input. No cookies will be stored in
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the file. To store cookies, save the HTTP headers
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to a file using -D/--dump-header!
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If this option is set more than once, the last one
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will be the one that's used.
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-B/--use-ascii
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Use ASCII transfer when getting an FTP file or LDAP
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info. For FTP, this can also be enforced by using
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an URL that ends with ";type=A". This option causes
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data sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32
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systems.
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If this option is used twice, the second one will
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disable ASCII usage.
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(SSL) Specifies which ciphers to use in the connec-
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tion. The list of ciphers must be using valid
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ciphers. Read up on SSL cipher list details on this
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URL: <I>http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html</I>
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<I>(Option</I> <I>added</I> <I>in</I> <I>curl</I> <I>7.9)</I>
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will override the others.
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--compressed
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(HTTP) Request a compressed response using the
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deflate or gzip algorithms and return the uncom-
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pressed document. If this option is used and the
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server sends an unsupported encoding, Curl will
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report an error.
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--connect-timeout <seconds>
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Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connec-
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tion to the server to take. This only limits the
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connection phase, once curl has connected this
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option is of no more use. See also the <I>--max-time</I>
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option.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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-c/--cookie-jar <file name>
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Specify to which file you want curl to write all
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cookies after a completed operation. Curl writes
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all cookies previously read from a specified file
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as well as all cookies received from remote
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server(s). If no cookies are known, no file will be
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written. The file will be written using the
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Netscape cookie file format. If you set the file
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name to a single dash, "-", the cookies will be
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written to stdout. (Option added in curl 7.9)
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<B>NOTE</B> If the cookie jar can't be created or written
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to, the whole curl operation won't fail or even
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report an error clearly. Using -v will get a warn-
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ing displayed, but that is the only visible feed-
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back you get about this possibly lethal situation.
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If this option is used several times, the last
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specfied file name will be used.
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-C/--continue-at <offset>
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Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the
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given offset. The given offset is the exact number
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of bytes that will be skipped counted from the
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beginning of the source file before it is trans-
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fered to the destination. If used with uploads,
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Use "-C -" to tell curl to automatically find out
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where/how to resume the transfer. It then uses the
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given output/input files to figure that out.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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--create-dirs
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When used in conjunction with the -o option, curl
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will create the necessary local directory hierarchy
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as needed.
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--crlf (FTP) Convert LF to CRLF in upload. Useful for MVS
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(OS/390).
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If this option is used twice, the second will again
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disable crlf converting.
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-d/--data <data>
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(HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request
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to the HTTP server, in a way that can emulate as if
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a user has filled in a HTML form and pressed the
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submit button. Note that the data is sent exactly
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as specified with no extra processing (with all
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newlines cut off). The data is expected to be
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"url-encoded". This will cause curl to pass the
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data to the server using the content-type applica-
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tion/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F. If more
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than one -d/--data option is used on the same com-
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mand line, the data pieces specified will be merged
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together with a separating &-letter. Thus, using
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'-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a
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post chunk that looks like
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'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
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If you start the data with the letter @, the rest
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should be a file name to read the data from, or -
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if you want curl to read the data from stdin. The
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contents of the file must already be url-encoded.
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Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data
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from a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with
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"--data @foobar".
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To post data purely binary, you should instead use
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the --data-binary option.
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-d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.
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If this option is used several times, the ones fol-
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lowing the first will append data.
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(HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option.
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If this option is used several times, the ones fol-
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lowing the first will append data.
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--data-binary <data>
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(HTTP) This posts data in a similar manner as
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--data-ascii does, although when using this option
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the entire context of the posted data is kept as-
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is. If you want to post a binary file without the
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strip-newlines feature of the --data-ascii option,
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this is for you.
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If this option is used several times, the ones fol-
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lowing the first will append data.
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--disable-epsv
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(FTP) Tell curl to disable the use of the EPSV com-
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mand when doing passive FTP downloads. Curl will
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normally always first attempt to use EPSV before
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PASV, but with this option, it will not try using
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EPSV.
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If this option is used several times, each occur-
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rence will toggle this on/off.
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-D/--dump-header <file>
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Write the protocol headers to the specified file.
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This option is handy to use when you want to store
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the cookies that a HTTP site sends to you. The
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cookies could then be read in a second curl invoke
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by using the -b/--cookie option!
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When used on FTP, the ftp server response lines are
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considered being "headers" and thus are saved
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there.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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-e/--referer <URL>
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(HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the
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HTTP server. This can also be set with the
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-H/--header flag of course. When used with
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<I>-L/--location</I> you can append ";auto" to the referer
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URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL
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when it follows a Location: header. The ";auto"
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string can be used alone, even if you don't set an
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initial referer.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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(RISC OS ONLY) Sets a range of environment vari-
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ables, using the names the -w option supports, to
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easier allow extraction of useful information after
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having run curl.
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If this option is used several times, each occur-
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rence will toggle this on/off.
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--egd-file <file>
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(HTTPS) Specify the path name to the Entropy Gath-
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ering Daemon socket. The socket is used to seed the
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random engine for SSL connections. See also the
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<I>--random-file</I> option.
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-E/--cert <certificate[:password]>
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(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate
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file when getting a file with HTTPS. The certifi-
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cate must be in PEM format. If the optional pass-
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word isn't specified, it will be queried for on the
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terminal. Note that this certificate is the private
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key and the private certificate concatenated!
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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--cacert <CA certificate>
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(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate
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file to verify the peer. The file may contain mul-
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tiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must be
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in PEM format.
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curl recognizes the environment variable named
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'CURL_CA_BUNDLE' if that is set, and uses the given
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path as a path to a CA cert bundle. This option
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overrides that variable.
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The windows version of curl will automatically look
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for a CA certs file named 'curl-ca-bundle.crt',
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either in the same directory as curl.exe, or in the
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Current Working Directory, or in any folder along
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your PATH.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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--capath <CA certificate directory>
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(HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate
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directory to verify the peer. The certificates must
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be in PEM format, and the directory must have been
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processed using the c_rehash utility supplied with
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openssl. Using --capath can allow curl to make
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https connections much more efficiently than using
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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-f/--fail
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(HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server
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errors. This is mostly done like this to better
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enable scripts etc to better deal with failed
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attempts. In normal cases when a HTTP server fails
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to deliver a document, it returns a HTML document
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stating so (which often also describes why and
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more). This flag will prevent curl from outputting
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that and fail silently instead.
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If this option is used twice, the second will again
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disable silent failure.
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-F/--form <name=content>
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(HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled in form in
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which a user has pressed the submit button. This
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causes curl to POST data using the content-type
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multipart/form-data according to RFC1867. This
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enables uploading of binary files etc. To force the
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'content' part to be be a file, prefix the file
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name with an @ sign. To just get the content part
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from a file, prefix the file name with the letter
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<. The difference between @ and < is then that @
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makes a file get attached in the post as a file
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upload, while the < makes a text field and just get
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the contents for that text field from a file.
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Example, to send your password file to the server,
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where 'password' is the name of the form-field to
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which /etc/passwd will be the input:
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<B>curl</B> -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com
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To read the file's content from stdin insted of a
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file, use - where the file name should've been.
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This goes for both @ and < constructs.
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You can also tell curl what Content-Type to use for
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the file upload part, by using 'type=', in a manner
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similar to:
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<B>curl</B> -F "web=@index.html;type=text/html" url.com
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See further examples and details in the MANUAL.
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This option can be used multiple times.
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-g/--globoff
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contain the letters {}[] without having them being
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interpreted by curl itself. Note that these letters
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are not normal legal URL contents but they should
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be encoded according to the URI standard.
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-G/--get
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When used, this option will make all data specified
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with -d/--data or --data-binary to be used in a
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HTTP GET request instead of the POST request that
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otherwise would be used. The data will be appended
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to the URL with a '?' separator. (Option added in
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curl 7.9)
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If used in combination with -I, the POST data will
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instead be appended to the URL with a HEAD request.
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If used multiple times, nothing special happens.
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-h/--help
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Usage help.
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-H/--header <header>
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(HTTP) Extra header to use when getting a web page.
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You may specify any number of extra headers. Note
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that if you should add a custom header that has the
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same name as one of the internal ones curl would
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use, your externally set header will be used
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instead of the internal one. This allows you to
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make even trickier stuff than curl would normally
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do. You should not replace internally set headers
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without knowing perfectly well what you're doing.
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Replacing an internal header with one without con-
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tent on the right side of the colon will prevent
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that header from appearing.
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This option can be used multiple times to
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add/replace/remove multiple headers.
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-i/--include
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(HTTP) Include the HTTP-header in the output. The
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HTTP-header includes things like server-name, date
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of the document, HTTP-version and more...
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If this option is used twice, the second will again
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disable header include.
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--interface <name>
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Perform an operation using a specified interface.
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You can enter interface name, IP address or host
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name. An example could look like:
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<B>curl</B> <B>--interface</B> <B>eth0:1</B> <B>http://www.netscape.com/</B>
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will be used.
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-I/--head
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(HTTP/FTP) Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers
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feature the command HEAD which this uses to get
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nothing but the header of a document. When used on
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a FTP file, curl displays the file size only.
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If this option is used twice, the second will again
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disable header only.
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-j/--junk-session-cookies
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(HTTP) When curl is told to read cookies from a
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given file, this option will make it discard all
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"session cookies". This will basicly have the same
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effect as if a new session is started. Typical
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browsers always discard session cookies when
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they're closed down. (Added in 7.9.7)
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If this option is used several times, each occur-
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rence will toggle this on/off.
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-k/--insecure
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(SSL) This option explicitly allows curl to perform
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"insecure" SSL connections and transfers. Starting
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with curl 7.10, all SSL connections will be
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attempted to be made secure by using the CA cer-
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tificate bundle installed by default. This makes
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all connections considered "insecure" to fail
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unless -k/--insecure is used.
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This option is ignored if --cacert or --capath is
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used!
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If this option is used twice, the second time will
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again disable it.
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--krb4 <level>
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(FTP) Enable kerberos4 authentication and use. The
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level must be entered and should be one of 'clear',
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'safe', 'confidential' or 'private'. Should you use
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a level that is not one of these, 'private' will
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instead be used.
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If this option is used several times, the last one
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will be used.
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-K/--config <config file>
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Specify which config file to read curl arguments
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from. The config file is a text file in which com-
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mand line arguments can be written which then will
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be used as if they were written on the actual com-
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parameter is to contain white spaces, the parameter
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must be inclosed within quotes. If the first col-
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umn of a config line is a '#' character, the rest
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of the line will be treated as a comment.
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Specify the filename as '-' to make curl read the
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file from stdin.
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Note that to be able to specify a URL in the config
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file, you need to specify it using the --url
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option, and not by simply writing the URL on its
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own line. So, it could look similar to this:
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url = "http://curl.haxx.se/docs/"
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This option can be used multiple times.
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--limit-rate <speed>
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Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to
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use. This feature is useful if you have a limited
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pipe and you'd like your transfer not use your
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entire bandwidth.
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The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless
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a suffix is appended. Appending 'k' or 'K' will
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count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or M' makes it
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megabytes while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes.
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Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.
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|
|
|
This option was introduced in curl 7.10.
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|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-l/--list-only
|
|
(FTP) When listing an FTP directory, this switch
|
|
forces a name-only view. Especially useful if you
|
|
want to machine-parse the contents of an FTP direc-
|
|
tory since the normal directory view doesn't use a
|
|
standard look or format.
|
|
|
|
This option causes an FTP NLST command to be sent.
|
|
Some FTP servers list only files in their response
|
|
to NLST; they do not include subdirectories and
|
|
symbolic links.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable list only.
|
|
|
|
-L/--location
|
|
(HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the
|
|
requested page has a different location (indicated
|
|
If used together with -i or -I, headers from all
|
|
requested pages will be shown. If this flag is used
|
|
when making a HTTP POST, curl will automatically
|
|
switch to GET after the initial POST has been done.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable location following.
|
|
|
|
-m/--max-time <seconds>
|
|
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole
|
|
operation to take. This is useful for preventing
|
|
your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow
|
|
networks or links going down. This doesn't work
|
|
fully in win32 systems. See also the <I>--connect-</I>
|
|
<I>timeout</I> option.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-M/--manual
|
|
Manual. Display the huge help text.
|
|
|
|
-n/--netrc
|
|
Makes curl scan the <I>.netrc</I> file in the user's home
|
|
directory for login name and password. This is typ-
|
|
ically used for ftp on unix. If used with http,
|
|
curl will enable user authentication. See <B>netrc(4)</B>
|
|
or <B>ftp(1)</B> for details on the file format. Curl will
|
|
not complain if that file hasn't the right permis-
|
|
sions (it should not be world nor group readable).
|
|
The environment variable "HOME" is used to find the
|
|
home directory.
|
|
|
|
A quick and very simple example of how to setup a
|
|
<I>.netrc</I> to allow curl to ftp to the machine
|
|
host.domain.com with user name 'myself' and pass-
|
|
word 'secret' should look similar to:
|
|
|
|
<B>machine</B> <B>host.domain.com</B> <B>login</B> <B>myself</B> <B>password</B>
|
|
<B>secret</B>
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable netrc usage.
|
|
|
|
-N/--no-buffer
|
|
Disables the buffering of the output stream. In
|
|
normal work situations, curl will use a standard
|
|
buffered output stream that will have the effect
|
|
that it will output the data in chunks, not neces-
|
|
sarily exactly when the data arrives. Using this
|
|
option will disable that buffering.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-o/--output <file>
|
|
Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you
|
|
are using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you
|
|
can use '#' followed by a number in the <file>
|
|
specifier. That variable will be replaced with the
|
|
current string for the URL being fetched. Like in:
|
|
|
|
curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"
|
|
|
|
or use several variables like:
|
|
|
|
curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"
|
|
|
|
You may use this option as many times as you have
|
|
number of URLs.
|
|
|
|
See also the --create-dirs option to create the
|
|
local directories dynamically.
|
|
|
|
-O/--remote-name
|
|
Write output to a local file named like the remote
|
|
file we get. (Only the file part of the remote file
|
|
is used, the path is cut off.)
|
|
|
|
You may use this option as many times as you have
|
|
number of URLs.
|
|
|
|
-p/--proxytunnel
|
|
When an HTTP proxy is used, this option will cause
|
|
non-HTTP protocols to attempt to tunnel through the
|
|
proxy instead of merely using it to do HTTP-like
|
|
operations. The tunnel approach is made with the
|
|
HTTP proxy CONNECT request and requires that the
|
|
proxy allows direct connect to the remote port num-
|
|
ber curl wants to tunnel through to.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable proxy tunnel.
|
|
|
|
-P/--ftpport <address>
|
|
(FTP) Reverses the initiator/listener roles when
|
|
connecting with ftp. This switch makes Curl use the
|
|
PORT command instead of PASV. In practice, PORT
|
|
tells the server to connect to the client's speci-
|
|
fied address and port, while PASV asks the server
|
|
for an ip address and port to connect to. <address>
|
|
should be one of:
|
|
|
|
<B>interface</B> i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's
|
|
IP address you want to use (Unix only)
|
|
|
|
|
|
<B>host</B> <B>name</B> i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
|
|
|
|
<B>-</B> (any single-letter string) to make it
|
|
pick the machine's default
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one will be
|
|
used.
|
|
|
|
-q If used as the first parameter on the command line,
|
|
the <I>$HOME/.curlrc</I> file will not be read and used as
|
|
a config file.
|
|
|
|
-Q/--quote <comand>
|
|
(FTP) Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP
|
|
server, by using the QUOTE command of the server.
|
|
Not all servers support this command, and the set
|
|
of QUOTE commands are server specific! Quote com-
|
|
mands are sent BEFORE the transfer is taking place.
|
|
To make commands take place after a successful
|
|
transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. You may
|
|
specify any amount of commands to be run before and
|
|
after the transfer. If the server returns failure
|
|
for one of the commands, the entire operation will
|
|
be aborted.
|
|
|
|
This option can be used multiple times.
|
|
|
|
--random-file <file>
|
|
(HTTPS) Specify the path name to file containing
|
|
what will be considered as random data. The data is
|
|
used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.
|
|
See also the <I>--edg-file</I> option.
|
|
|
|
-r/--range <range>
|
|
(HTTP/FTP) Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial
|
|
document) from a HTTP/1.1 or FTP server. Ranges can
|
|
be specified in a number of ways.
|
|
|
|
<B>0-499</B> specifies the first 500 bytes
|
|
|
|
<B>500-999</B> specifies the second 500 bytes
|
|
|
|
<B>-500</B> specifies the last 500 bytes
|
|
|
|
<B>9500</B> specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and
|
|
forward
|
|
|
|
<B>0-0,-1</B> specifies the first and last byte
|
|
only(*)(H)
|
|
|
|
<B>500-700,600-799</B>
|
|
specifies two separate 100 bytes
|
|
ranges(*)(H)
|
|
|
|
(*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a
|
|
multipart response!
|
|
|
|
You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not
|
|
have this feature enabled, so that when you attempt to get
|
|
a range, you'll instead get the whole document.
|
|
|
|
FTP range downloads only support the simple syntax 'start-
|
|
stop' (optionally with one of the numbers omitted). It
|
|
depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one will be
|
|
used.
|
|
|
|
-R/--remote-time
|
|
When used, this will make libcurl attempt to figure
|
|
out the timestamp of the remote file, and if that
|
|
is available make the local file get that same
|
|
timestamp.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second time dis-
|
|
ables this again.
|
|
|
|
-s/--silent
|
|
Silent mode. Don't show progress meter or error
|
|
messages. Makes Curl mute.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable mute.
|
|
|
|
-S/--show-error
|
|
When used with -s it makes curl show error message
|
|
if it fails.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable show error.
|
|
|
|
--stderr <file>
|
|
Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file
|
|
instead. If the file name is a plain '-', it is
|
|
instead written to stdout. This option has no point
|
|
when you're using a shell with decent redirecting
|
|
capabilities.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-t/--telnet-option <OPT=val>
|
|
Pass options to the telnet protocol. Supported
|
|
|
|
XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.
|
|
|
|
NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.
|
|
|
|
-T/--upload-file <file>
|
|
This transfers the specified local file to the
|
|
remote URL. If there is no file part in the speci-
|
|
fied URL, Curl will append the local file name.
|
|
NOTE that you must use a trailing / on the last
|
|
directory to really prove to Curl that there is no
|
|
file name or curl will think that your last direc-
|
|
tory name is the remote file name to use. That will
|
|
most likely cause the upload operation to fail. If
|
|
this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT command
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin
|
|
instead of a given file.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
--trace <file>
|
|
Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and out-
|
|
going data, including descriptive information, to
|
|
the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
|
|
the output sent to stdout.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used. (Added in curl 7.9.7)
|
|
|
|
--trace-ascii <file>
|
|
Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and out-
|
|
going data, including descriptive information, to
|
|
the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
|
|
the output sent to stdout.
|
|
|
|
This is very similar to --trace, but leaves out the
|
|
hex part and only shows the ASCII part of the dump.
|
|
It makes smaller output that might be easier to
|
|
read for untrained humans.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used. (Added in curl 7.9.7)
|
|
|
|
-u/--user <user:password>
|
|
Specify user and password to use when fetching.
|
|
Read the MANUAL for detailed examples of how to use
|
|
this. If no password is specified, curl will ask
|
|
for it interactively.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-U/--proxy-user <user:password>
|
|
Specify user and password to use for Proxy authen-
|
|
tication. If no password is specified, curl will
|
|
ask for it interactively.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
--url <URL>
|
|
Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy
|
|
when you want to specify URL(s) in a config file.
|
|
|
|
This option may be used any number of times. To
|
|
control where this URL is written, use the <I>-o</I> or
|
|
the <I>-O</I> options.
|
|
|
|
-v/--verbose
|
|
Makes the fetching more verbose/talkative. Mostly
|
|
usable for debugging. Lines starting with '>' means
|
|
data sent by curl, '<' means data received by curl
|
|
that is hidden in normal cases and lines starting
|
|
with '*' means additional info provided by curl.
|
|
|
|
Note that if you want to see HTTP headers in the
|
|
output, <I>-i/--include</I> might be option you're looking
|
|
for.
|
|
|
|
If you think this option still doesn't give you
|
|
enough details, consider using <I>--trace</I> or <I>--trace-</I>
|
|
<I>ascii</I> instead.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable verbose.
|
|
|
|
-V/--version
|
|
Displays the full version of curl, libcurl and
|
|
other 3rd party libraries linked with the exe-
|
|
cutable.
|
|
|
|
-w/--write-out <format>
|
|
Defines what to display after a completed and suc-
|
|
cessful operation. The format is a string that may
|
|
contain plain text mixed with any number of vari-
|
|
ables. The string can be specified as "string", to
|
|
get read from a particular file you specify it
|
|
"@filename" and to tell curl to read the format
|
|
from stdin you write "@-".
|
|
|
|
The variables present in the output format will be
|
|
substituted by the value or text that curl thinks
|
|
fit, as described below. All variables are speci-
|
|
line by using \n, a carriage return with \r and a
|
|
tab space with \t.
|
|
|
|
<B>NOTE:</B> The %-letter is a special letter in the
|
|
win32-environment, where all occurrences of % must
|
|
be doubled when using this option.
|
|
|
|
Available variables are at this point:
|
|
|
|
<B>url_effective</B> The URL that was fetched last. This
|
|
is mostly meaningful if you've told
|
|
curl to follow location: headers.
|
|
|
|
<B>http_code</B> The numerical code that was found in
|
|
the last retrieved HTTP(S) page.
|
|
|
|
<B>time_total</B> The total time, in seconds, that the
|
|
full operation lasted. The time will
|
|
be displayed with millisecond reso-
|
|
lution.
|
|
|
|
<B>time_namelookup</B>
|
|
The time, in seconds, it took from
|
|
the start until the name resolving
|
|
was completed.
|
|
|
|
<B>time_connect</B> The time, in seconds, it took from
|
|
the start until the connect to the
|
|
remote host (or proxy) was com-
|
|
pleted.
|
|
|
|
<B>time_pretransfer</B>
|
|
The time, in seconds, it took from
|
|
the start until the file transfer is
|
|
just about to begin. This includes
|
|
all pre-transfer commands and nego-
|
|
tiations that are specific to the
|
|
particular protocol(s) involved.
|
|
|
|
<B>time_starttransfer</B>
|
|
The time, in seconds, it took from
|
|
the start until the first byte is
|
|
just about to be transfered. This
|
|
includes time_pretransfer and also
|
|
the time the server needs to calcu-
|
|
late the result.
|
|
|
|
<B>size_download</B> The total amount of bytes that were
|
|
downloaded.
|
|
|
|
<B>size_upload</B> The total amount of bytes that were
|
|
uploaded.
|
|
downloaded headers.
|
|
|
|
<B>size_request</B> The total amount of bytes that were
|
|
sent in the HTTP request.
|
|
|
|
<B>speed_download</B> The average download speed that curl
|
|
measured for the complete download.
|
|
|
|
<B>speed_upload</B> The average upload speed that curl
|
|
measured for the complete upload.
|
|
|
|
<B>content_type</B> The Content-Type of the requested
|
|
document, if there was any. (Added
|
|
in 7.9.5)
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one will be
|
|
used.
|
|
|
|
-x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>
|
|
Use specified HTTP proxy. If the port number is not
|
|
specified, it is assumed at port 1080.
|
|
|
|
This option overrides existing environment vari-
|
|
ables that sets proxy to use. If there's an envi-
|
|
ronment variable setting a proxy, you can set proxy
|
|
to "" to override it.
|
|
|
|
<B>Note</B> that all operations that are performed over a
|
|
HTTP proxy will transparantly be converted to HTTP.
|
|
It means that certain protocol specific operations
|
|
might not be available. This is not the case if you
|
|
can tunnel through the proxy, as done with the
|
|
<I>-p/--proxytunnel</I> option.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-X/--request <command>
|
|
(HTTP) Specifies a custom request to use when com-
|
|
municating with the HTTP server. The specified
|
|
request will be used instead of the standard GET.
|
|
Read the HTTP 1.1 specification for details and
|
|
explanations.
|
|
|
|
(FTP) Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead
|
|
of LIST when doing file lists with ftp.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-y/--speed-time <time>
|
|
If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per
|
|
speed-limit will be 1 unless set with -y.
|
|
|
|
This option controls transfers and thus will not
|
|
affect slow connects etc. If this is a concern for
|
|
you, try the <I>--connect-timeout</I> option.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-Y/--speed-limit <speed>
|
|
If a download is slower than this given speed, in
|
|
bytes per second, for speed-time seconds it gets
|
|
aborted. speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if not
|
|
set.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-z/--time-cond <date expression>
|
|
(HTTP) Request to get a file that has been modified
|
|
later than the given time and date, or one that has
|
|
been modified before that time. The date expression
|
|
can be all sorts of date strings or if it doesn't
|
|
match any internal ones, it tries to get the time
|
|
from a given file name instead! See the <B>GNU</B> <B>date(1)</B>
|
|
or <B>curl_getdate(3)</B> man pages for date expression
|
|
details.
|
|
|
|
Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make
|
|
it request for a document that is older than the
|
|
given date/time, default is a document that is
|
|
newer than the specified date/time.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-Z/--max-redirs <num>
|
|
Set maximum number of redirection-followings
|
|
allowed. If -L/--location is used, this option can
|
|
be used to prevent curl from following redirections
|
|
"in absurdum".
|
|
|
|
If this option is used several times, the last one
|
|
will be used.
|
|
|
|
-3/--sslv3
|
|
(HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when nego-
|
|
tiating with a remote SSL server.
|
|
|
|
-2/--sslv2
|
|
(HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when nego-
|
|
tiating with a remote SSL server.
|
|
(HTTP) Forces curl to issue its requests using HTTP
|
|
1.0 instead of using its internally preferred: HTTP
|
|
1.1.
|
|
|
|
-#/--progress-bar
|
|
Make curl display progress information as a
|
|
progress bar instead of the default statistics.
|
|
|
|
If this option is used twice, the second will again
|
|
disable the progress bar.
|
|
|
|
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
<H2>FILES</H2><PRE>
|
|
<I>~/.curlrc</I>
|
|
Default config file.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
<H2>ENVIRONMENT</H2><PRE>
|
|
http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]
|
|
Sets proxy server to use for HTTP.
|
|
|
|
HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
|
|
Sets proxy server to use for HTTPS.
|
|
|
|
FTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
|
|
Sets proxy server to use for FTP.
|
|
|
|
GOPHER_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
|
|
Sets proxy server to use for GOPHER.
|
|
|
|
ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
|
|
Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific
|
|
proxy is set.
|
|
|
|
NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>
|
|
list of host names that shouldn't go through any
|
|
proxy. If set to a asterisk
|
|
|
|
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
<H2>EXIT CODES</H2><PRE>
|
|
There exists a bunch of different error codes and their
|
|
corresponding error messages that may appear during bad
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conditions. At the time of this writing, the exit codes
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1 Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no
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support for this protocol.
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2 Failed to initialize.
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3 URL malformat. The syntax was not correct.
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4 URL user malformatted. The user-part of the URL
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syntax was not correct.
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not be resolved.
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6 Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was
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not resolved.
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7 Failed to connect to host.
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8 FTP weird server reply. The server sent data curl
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couldn't parse.
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9 FTP access denied. The server denied login.
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10 FTP user/password incorrect. Either one or both
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were not accepted by the server.
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11 FTP weird PASS reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply
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sent to the PASS request.
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12 FTP weird USER reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply
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sent to the USER request.
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13 FTP weird PASV reply, Curl couldn't parse the reply
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sent to the PASV request.
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14 FTP weird 227 format. Curl couldn't parse the
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227-line the server sent.
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15 FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we
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got in the 227-line.
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16 FTP can't reconnect. Couldn't connect to the host
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we got in the 227-line.
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17 FTP couldn't set binary. Couldn't change transfer
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method to binary.
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18 Partial file. Only a part of the file was trans-
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fered.
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19 FTP couldn't download/access the given file, the
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RETR (or similar) command failed.
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20 FTP write error. The transfer was reported bad by
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the server.
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21 FTP quote error. A quote command returned error
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from the server.
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22 HTTP page not retrieved. The requested url was not
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found or returned another error with the HTTP error
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code being 400 or above. This return code only
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appears if --fail is used.
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filesystem or similar.
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24 Malformat user. User name badly specified.
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25 FTP couldn't STOR file. The server denied the STOR
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operation.
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26 Read error. Various reading problems.
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27 Out of memory. A memory allocation request failed.
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28 Operation timeout. The specified time-out period
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was reached according to the conditions.
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29 FTP couldn't set ASCII. The server returned an
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unknown reply.
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30 FTP PORT failed. The PORT command failed.
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31 FTP couldn't use REST. The REST command failed.
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32 FTP couldn't use SIZE. The SIZE command failed. The
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command is an extension to the original FTP spec
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RFC 959.
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33 HTTP range error. The range "command" didn't work.
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34 HTTP post error. Internal post-request generation
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error.
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35 SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.
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36 FTP bad download resume. Couldn't continue an ear-
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lier aborted download.
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37 FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file.
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Permissions?
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38 LDAP cannot bind. LDAP bind operation failed.
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39 LDAP search failed.
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40 Library not found. The LDAP library was not found.
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41 Function not found. A required LDAP function was
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not found.
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42 Aborted by callback. An application told curl to
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abort the operation.
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43 Internal error. A function was called with a bad
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parameter.
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order.
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45 Interface error. A specified outgoing interface
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could not be used.
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46 Bad password entered. An error was signaled when
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the password was entered.
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47 Too many redirects. When following redirects, curl
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hit the maximum amount.
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48 Unknown TELNET option specified.
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49 Malformed telnet option.
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51 The remote peer's SSL certificate wasn't ok
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52 The server didn't reply anything, which here is
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considered an error.
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53 SSL crypto engine not found
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54 Cannot set SSL crypto engine as default
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55 Failed sending network data
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56 Failure in receiving network data
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57 Share is in use (internal error)
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58 Problem with the local certificate
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59 Couldn't use specified SSL cipher
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60 Problem with the CA cert (path? permission?)
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61 Unrecognized transfer encoding
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XX There will appear more error codes here in future
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releases. The existing ones are meant to never
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change.
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<H2>BUGS</H2><PRE>
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If you do find bugs, mail them to curl-bug@haxx.se.
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<H2>AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS</H2><PRE>
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Daniel Stenberg is the main author, but the whole list of
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contributors is found in the separate THANKS file.
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<H2>WWW</H2><PRE>
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http://curl.haxx.se
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ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/
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</PRE>
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2><PRE>
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<B>ftp(1)</B>, <B>wget(1)</B>, <B>snarf(1)</B>
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