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.TH curl 1 "November 16, 2016" "Curl 7.58.0" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B curl [options]
.I [URL...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B curl
is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP,
LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET
and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction.
curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user
authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer
resume, Metalink, and more. As you will see below, the number of features will
make your head spin!
curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features. See
\fIlibcurl(3)\fP for details.
.SH URL
The URL syntax is protocol-dependent. You'll find a detailed description in
RFC 3986.
You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within
braces as in:
http://site.{one,two,three}.com
or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)
ftp://ftp.example.com/file[a-z].txt
Nested sequences are not supported, but you can use several ones next to each
other:
http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html
You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
in a sequential manner in the specified order.
You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or
letter:
http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt
http://example.com/file[a-z:2].txt
When using [] or {} sequences when invoked from a command line prompt, you
probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from
interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like
for example '&', '?' and '*'.
Provide the IPv6 zone index in the URL with an escaped percentage sign and the
interface name. Like in
http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/
If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what
protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols
based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting
with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP.
curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead
\fBvery\fP liberal with what it accepts.
curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that
getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects /
handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files
specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl
invokes.
.SH "PROGRESS METER"
curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
progress meter displays number of bytes and the speeds are in bytes per
second. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024
bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes.
curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
\fIdisables\fP the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output
mixing progress meter and response data.
If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
redirect the response output to a file, using shell redirect (>), \fI-o, --output\fP or
similar.
It is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit out
any response data to the terminal.
If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, \fI-#, --progress-bar\fP is
your friend. You can also disable the progress meter completely with the
\fI-s, --silent\fP option.
.SH OPTIONS
Options start with one or two dashes. Many of the options require an
additional value next to them.
The short "single-dash" form of the options, -d for example, may be used with
or without a space between it and its value, although a space is a recommended
separator. The long "double-dash" form, \fI-d, --data\fP for example, requires a space
between it and its value.
Short version options that don't need any additional values can be used
immediately next to each other, like for example you can specify all the
options -O, -L and -v at once as -OLv.
In general, all boolean options are enabled with --\fBoption\fP and yet again
disabled with --\fBno-\fPoption. That is, you use the exact same option name
but prefix it with "no-". However, in this list we mostly only list and show
the --option version of them. (This concept with --no options was added in
7.19.0. Previously most options were toggled on/off on repeated use of the
same command line option.)
.IP "--abstract-unix-socket <path>"
(HTTP) Connect through an abstract Unix domain socket, instead of using the network.
Note: netstat shows the path of an abstract socket prefixed with '@', however
the <path> argument should not have this leading character.
Added in 7.53.0.
.IP "--anyauth"
(HTTP) Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself, and use the most
secure one the remote site claims to support. This is done by first doing a
request and checking the response-headers, thus possibly inducing an extra
network round-trip. This is used instead of setting a specific authentication
method, which you can do with \fI--basic\fP, \fI--digest\fP, \fI--ntlm\fP, and \fI--negotiate\fP.
Using \fI--anyauth\fP is not recommended if you do uploads from stdin, since it may
require data to be sent twice and then the client must be able to rewind. If
the need should arise when uploading from stdin, the upload operation will
fail.
Used together with \fI-u, --user\fP.
See also \fI--proxy-anyauth\fP and \fI--basic\fP and \fI--digest\fP.
.IP "-a, --append"
(FTP SFTP) When used in an upload, this makes curl append to the target file instead of
overwriting it. If the remote file doesn't exist, it will be created. Note
that this flag is ignored by some SFTP servers (including OpenSSH).
.IP "--basic"
(HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication with the remote host. This is the
default and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it to override a
previously set option that sets a different authentication method (such as
\fI--ntlm\fP, \fI--digest\fP, or \fI--negotiate\fP).
Used together with \fI-u, --user\fP.
See also \fI--proxy-basic\fP.
.IP "--cacert <file>"
(TLS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the peer. The file
may contain multiple CA certificates. The certificate(s) must be in PEM
format. Normally curl is built to use a default file for this, so this option
is typically used to alter that default file.
curl recognizes the environment variable named 'CURL_CA_BUNDLE' if it is
set, and uses the given path as a path to a CA cert bundle. This option
overrides that variable.
The windows version of curl will automatically look for a CA certs file named
\'curl-ca-bundle.crt\', either in the same directory as curl.exe, or in the
Current Working Directory, or in any folder along your PATH.
If curl is built against the NSS SSL library, the NSS PEM PKCS#11 module
(libnsspem.so) needs to be available for this option to work properly.
(iOS and macOS only) If curl is built against Secure Transport, then this
option is supported for backward compatibility with other SSL engines, but it
should not be set. If the option is not set, then curl will use the
certificates in the system and user Keychain to verify the peer, which is the
preferred method of verifying the peer's certificate chain.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--capath <dir>"
(TLS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate directory to verify the
peer. Multiple paths can be provided by separating them with ":" (e.g.
\&"path1:path2:path3"). The certificates must be in PEM format, and if curl is
built against OpenSSL, the directory must have been processed using the
c_rehash utility supplied with OpenSSL. Using \fI--capath\fP can allow
OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using
\fI--cacert\fP if the --cacert file contains many CA certificates.
If this option is set, the default capath value will be ignored, and if it is
used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--cert-status"
(TLS) Tells curl to verify the status of the server certificate by using the
Certificate Status Request (aka. OCSP stapling) TLS extension.
If this option is enabled and the server sends an invalid (e.g. expired)
response, if the response suggests that the server certificate has been revoked,
or no response at all is received, the verification fails.
This is currently only implemented in the OpenSSL, GnuTLS and NSS backends.
Added in 7.41.0.
.IP "--cert-type <type>"
(TLS) Tells curl what certificate type the provided certificate is in. PEM, DER and
ENG are recognized types. If not specified, PEM is assumed.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-E, --cert\fP and \fI--key\fP and \fI--key-type\fP.
.IP "-E, --cert <certificate[:password]>"
(TLS) Tells curl to use the specified client certificate file when getting a file
with HTTPS, FTPS or another SSL-based protocol. The certificate must be in
PKCS#12 format if using Secure Transport, or PEM format if using any other
engine. If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on
the terminal. Note that this option assumes a \&"certificate" file that is the
private key and the client certificate concatenated! See \fI-E, --cert\fP and \fI--key\fP to
specify them independently.
If curl is built against the NSS SSL library then this option can tell
curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS database defined
by the environment variable SSL_DIR (or by default /etc/pki/nssdb). If the
NSS PEM PKCS#11 module (libnsspem.so) is available then PEM files may be
loaded. If you want to use a file from the current directory, please precede
it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname. If the
nickname contains ":", it needs to be preceded by "\\" so that it is not
recognized as password delimiter. If the nickname contains "\\", it needs to
be escaped as "\\\\" so that it is not recognized as an escape character.
(iOS and macOS only) If curl is built against Secure Transport, then the
certificate string can either be the name of a certificate/private key in the
system or user keychain, or the path to a PKCS#12-encoded certificate and
private key. If you want to use a file from the current directory, please
precede it with "./" prefix, in order to avoid confusion with a nickname.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI--cert-type\fP and \fI--key\fP and \fI--key-type\fP.
.IP "--ciphers <list of ciphers>"
(TLS) Specifies which ciphers to use in the connection. The list of ciphers must
specify valid ciphers. Read up on SSL cipher list details on this URL:
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/ssl-ciphers.html
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--compressed-ssh"
(SCP SFTP) Enables built-in SSH compression.
This is a request, not an order; the server may or may not do it.
Added in 7.56.0.
.IP "--compressed"
(HTTP) Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and
save the uncompressed document. If this option is used and the server sends
an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.
.IP "-K, --config <file>"
Specify a text file to read curl arguments from. The command line arguments
found in the text file will be used as if they were provided on the command
line.
Options and their parameters must be specified on the same line in the file,
separated by whitespace, colon, or the equals sign. Long option names can
optionally be given in the config file without the initial double dashes and
if so, the colon or equals characters can be used as separators. If the option
is specified with one or two dashes, there can be no colon or equals character
between the option and its parameter.
If the parameter is to contain whitespace, the parameter must be enclosed
within quotes. Within double quotes, the following escape sequences are
available: \\\\, \\", \\t, \\n, \\r and \\v. A backslash preceding any other
letter is ignored. If the first column of a config line is a '#' character,
the rest of the line will be treated as a comment. Only write one option per
physical line in the config file.
Specify the filename to \fI-K, --config\fP as '-' to make curl read the file from stdin.
Note that to be able to specify a URL in the config file, you need to specify
it using the \fI--url\fP option, and not by simply writing the URL on its own
line. So, it could look similar to this:
url = "https://curl.haxx.se/docs/"
When curl is invoked, it (unless \fI-q, --disable\fP is used) checks for a default
config file and uses it if found. The default config file is checked for in
the following places in this order:
1) curl tries to find the "home dir": It first checks for the CURL_HOME and
then the HOME environment variables. Failing that, it uses getpwuid() on
Unix-like systems (which returns the home dir given the current user in your
system). On Windows, it then checks for the APPDATA variable, or as a last
resort the '%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data'.
2) On windows, if there is no _curlrc file in the home dir, it checks for one
in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On Unix-like systems, it will
simply try to load .curlrc from the determined home dir.
.nf
# --- Example file ---
# this is a comment
url = "example.com"
output = "curlhere.html"
user-agent = "superagent/1.0"
# and fetch another URL too
url = "example.com/docs/manpage.html"
-O
referer = "http://nowhereatall.example.com/"
# --- End of example file ---
.fi
This option can be used multiple times to load multiple config files.
.IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>"
Maximum time in seconds that you allow curl's connection to take. This only
limits the connection phase, so if curl connects within the given period it
will continue - if not it will exit. Since version 7.32.0, this option
accepts decimal values.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-m, --max-time\fP.
.IP "--connect-to <HOST1:PORT1:HOST2:PORT2>"
For a request to the given HOST1:PORT1 pair, connect to HOST2:PORT2 instead.
This option is suitable to direct requests at a specific server, e.g. at a
specific cluster node in a cluster of servers. This option is only used to
establish the network connection. It does NOT affect the hostname/port that is
used for TLS/SSL (e.g. SNI, certificate verification) or for the application
protocols. "HOST1" and "PORT1" may be the empty string, meaning "any
host/port". "HOST2" and "PORT2" may also be the empty string, meaning "use the
request's original host/port".
A "host" specified to this option is compared as a string, so it needs to
match the name used in request URL. It can be either numerical such as
"127.0.0.1" or the full host name such as "example.org".
This option can be used many times to add many connect rules.
See also \fI--resolve\fP and \fI-H, --header\fP. Added in 7.49.0.
.IP "-C, --continue-at <offset>"
Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the given offset. The given offset
is the exact number of bytes that will be skipped, counting from the beginning
of the source file before it is transferred to the destination. If used with
uploads, the FTP server command SIZE will not be used by curl.
Use "-C -" to tell curl to automatically find out where/how to resume the
transfer. It then uses the given output/input files to figure that out.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-r, --range\fP.
.IP "-c, --cookie-jar <filename>"
(HTTP) Specify to which file you want curl to write all cookies after a completed
operation. Curl writes all cookies from its in-memory cookie storage to the
given file at the end of operations. If no cookies are known, no data will be
written. The file will be written using the Netscape cookie file format. If
you set the file name to a single dash, "-", the cookies will be written to
stdout.
This command line option will activate the cookie engine that makes curl
record and use cookies. Another way to activate it is to use the \fI-b, --cookie\fP
option.
If the cookie jar can't be created or written to, the whole curl operation
won't fail or even report an error clearly. Using \fI-v, --verbose\fP will get a warning
displayed, but that is the only visible feedback you get about this possibly
lethal situation.
If this option is used several times, the last specified file name will be
used.
.IP "-b, --cookie <data>"
(HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server in the Cookie header. It is supposedly
the data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line. The
data should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2".
If no '=' symbol is used in the argument, it is instead treated as a filename
to read previously stored cookie from. This option also activates the cookie
engine which will make curl record incoming cookies, which may be handy if
you're using this in combination with the \fI-L, --location\fP option or do multiple URL
transfers on the same invoke.
The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers
(Set-Cookie style) or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.
The file specified with \fI-b, --cookie\fP is only used as input. No cookies will be
written to the file. To store cookies, use the \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP option.
Exercise caution if you are using this option and multiple transfers may
occur. If you use the NAME1=VALUE1; format, or in a file use the Set-Cookie
format and don't specify a domain, then the cookie is sent for any domain
(even after redirects are followed) and cannot be modified by a server-set
cookie. If the cookie engine is enabled and a server sets a cookie of the same
name then both will be sent on a future transfer to that server, likely not
what you intended. To address these issues set a domain in Set-Cookie (doing
that will include sub domains) or use the Netscape format.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Users very often want to both read cookies from a file and write updated
cookies back to a file, so using both \fI-b, --cookie\fP and \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP in the same
command line is common.
.IP "--create-dirs"
When used in conjunction with the \fI-o, --output\fP option, curl will create the
necessary local directory hierarchy as needed. This option creates the dirs
mentioned with the \fI-o, --output\fP option, nothing else. If the --output file name
uses no dir or if the dirs it mentions already exist, no dir will be created.
To create remote directories when using FTP or SFTP, try \fI--ftp-create-dirs\fP.
.IP "--crlf"
(FTP SMTP) Convert LF to CRLF in upload. Useful for MVS (OS/390).
(SMTP added in 7.40.0)
.IP "--crlfile <file>"
(TLS) Provide a file using PEM format with a Certificate Revocation List that may
specify peer certificates that are to be considered revoked.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.19.7.
.IP "--data-ascii <data>"
(HTTP) This is just an alias for \fI-d, --data\fP.
.IP "--data-binary <data>"
(HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no extra processing whatsoever.
If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a filename. Data
is posted in a similar manner as \fI-d, --data\fP does, except that newlines and
carriage returns are preserved and conversions are never done.
If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append
data as described in \fI-d, --data\fP.
.IP "--data-raw <data>"
(HTTP) This posts data similarly to \fI-d, --data\fP but without the special
interpretation of the @ character.
See also \fI-d, --data\fP. Added in 7.43.0.
.IP "--data-urlencode <data>"
(HTTP) This posts data, similar to the other \fI-d, --data\fP options with the exception
that this performs URL-encoding.
To be CGI-compliant, the <data> part should begin with a \fIname\fP followed
by a separator and a content specification. The <data> part can be passed to
curl using one of the following syntaxes:
.RS
.IP "content"
This will make curl URL-encode the content and pass that on. Just be careful
so that the content doesn't contain any = or @ symbols, as that will then make
the syntax match one of the other cases below!
.IP "=content"
This will make curl URL-encode the content and pass that on. The preceding =
symbol is not included in the data.
.IP "name=content"
This will make curl URL-encode the content part and pass that on. Note that
the name part is expected to be URL-encoded already.
.IP "@filename"
This will make curl load data from the given file (including any newlines),
URL-encode that data and pass it on in the POST.
.IP "name@filename"
This will make curl load data from the given file (including any newlines),
URL-encode that data and pass it on in the POST. The name part gets an equal
sign appended, resulting in \fIname=urlencoded-file-content\fP. Note that the
name is expected to be URL-encoded already.
.RE
See also \fI-d, --data\fP and \fI--data-raw\fP. Added in 7.18.0.
.IP "-d, --data <data>"
(HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in the same way
that a browser does when a user has filled in an HTML form and presses the
submit button. This will cause curl to pass the data to the server using the
content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to \fI-F, --form\fP.
\fI--data-raw\fP is almost the same but does not have a special interpretation of
the @ character. To post data purely binary, you should instead use the
\fI--data-binary\fP option. To URL-encode the value of a form field you may use
\fI--data-urlencode\fP.
If any of these options is used more than once on the same command line, the
data pieces specified will be merged together with a separating
&-symbol. Thus, using '-d name=daniel -d skill=lousy' would generate a post
chunk that looks like \&'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.
If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from
stdin. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting data from a file named
'foobar' would thus be done with \fI-d, --data\fP @foobar. When --data is told to read
from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be stripped out. If
you don't want the @ character to have a special interpretation use \fI--data-raw\fP
instead.
See also \fI--data-binary\fP and \fI--data-urlencode\fP and \fI--data-raw\fP. This option overrides \fI-F, --form\fP and \fI-I, --head\fP and \fI--upload\fP.
.IP "--delegation <LEVEL>"
(GSS/kerberos) Set LEVEL to tell the server what it is allowed to delegate when it
comes to user credentials.
.RS
.IP "none"
Don't allow any delegation.
.IP "policy"
Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the Kerberos
service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
.IP "always"
Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
.RE
.IP "--digest"
(HTTP) Enables HTTP Digest authentication. This is an authentication scheme that
prevents the password from being sent over the wire in clear text. Use this in
combination with the normal \fI-u, --user\fP option to set user name and password.
If this option is used several times, only the first one is used.
See also \fI-u, --user\fP and \fI--proxy-digest\fP and \fI--anyauth\fP. This option overrides \fI--basic\fP and \fI--ntlm\fP and \fI--negotiate\fP.
.IP "--disable-eprt"
(FTP) Tell curl to disable the use of the EPRT and LPRT commands when doing active
FTP transfers. Curl will normally always first attempt to use EPRT, then LPRT
before using PORT, but with this option, it will use PORT right away. EPRT and
LPRT are extensions to the original FTP protocol, and may not work on all
servers, but they enable more functionality in a better way than the
traditional PORT command.
--eprt can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and --no-eprt is an alias
for \fI--disable-eprt\fP.
If the server is accessed using IPv6, this option will have no effect as EPRT
is necessary then.
Disabling EPRT only changes the active behavior. If you want to switch to
passive mode you need to not use \fI-P, --ftp-port\fP or force it with \fI--ftp-pasv\fP.
.IP "--disable-epsv"
(FTP) (FTP) Tell curl to disable the use of the EPSV command when doing passive FTP
transfers. Curl will normally always first attempt to use EPSV before PASV,
but with this option, it will not try using EPSV.
--epsv can be used to explicitly enable EPSV again and --no-epsv is an alias
for \fI--disable-epsv\fP.
If the server is an IPv6 host, this option will have no effect as EPSV is
necessary then.
Disabling EPSV only changes the passive behavior. If you want to switch to
active mode you need to use \fI-P, --ftp-port\fP.
.IP "-q, --disable"
If used as the first parameter on the command line, the \fIcurlrc\fP config
file will not be read and used. See the \fI-K, --config\fP for details on the default
config file search path.
.IP "--dns-interface <interface>"
(DNS) Tell curl to send outgoing DNS requests through <interface>. This option is a
counterpart to \fI--interface\fP (which does not affect DNS). The supplied string
must be an interface name (not an address).
See also \fI--dns-ipv4-addr\fP and \fI--dns-ipv6-addr\fP. \fI--dns-interface\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support c-ares. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "--dns-ipv4-addr <address>"
(DNS) Tell curl to bind to <ip-address> when making IPv4 DNS requests, so that
the DNS requests originate from this address. The argument should be a
single IPv4 address.
See also \fI--dns-interface\fP and \fI--dns-ipv6-addr\fP. \fI--dns-ipv4-addr\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support c-ares. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "--dns-ipv6-addr <address>"
(DNS) Tell curl to bind to <ip-address> when making IPv6 DNS requests, so that
the DNS requests originate from this address. The argument should be a
single IPv6 address.
See also \fI--dns-interface\fP and \fI--dns-ipv4-addr\fP. \fI--dns-ipv6-addr\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support c-ares. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "--dns-servers <addresses>"
Set the list of DNS servers to be used instead of the system default.
The list of IP addresses should be separated with commas. Port numbers
may also optionally be given as \fI:<port-number>\fP after each IP
address.
\fI--dns-servers\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support c-ares. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "-D, --dump-header <filename>"
(HTTP FTP) Write the received protocol headers to the specified file.
This option is handy to use when you want to store the headers that an HTTP
site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could then be read in a second
curl invocation by using the \fI-b, --cookie\fP option! The \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP option is a
better way to store cookies.
When used in FTP, the FTP server response lines are considered being "headers"
and thus are saved there.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-o, --output\fP.
.IP "--egd-file <file>"
(TLS) Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is
used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.
See also \fI--random-file\fP.
.IP "--engine <name>"
(TLS) Select the OpenSSL crypto engine to use for cipher operations. Use \fI--engine\fP
list to print a list of build-time supported engines. Note that not all (or
none) of the engines may be available at run-time.
.IP "--expect100-timeout <seconds>"
(HTTP) Maximum time in seconds that you allow curl to wait for a 100-continue
response when curl emits an Expects: 100-continue header in its request. By
default curl will wait one second. This option accepts decimal values! When
curl stops waiting, it will continue as if the response has been received.
See also \fI--connect-timeout\fP. Added in 7.47.0.
.IP "--fail-early"
Fail and exit on the first detected transfer error.
When curl is used to do multiple transfers on the command line, it will
attempt to operate on each given URL, one by one. By default, it will ignore
errors if there are more URLs given and the last URL's success will determine
the error code curl returns. So early failures will be "hidden" by subsequent
successful transfers.
Using this option, curl will instead return an error on the first transfer
that fails, independent of the amount of URLs that are given on the command
line. This way, no transfer failures go undetected by scripts and similar.
This option is global and does not need to be specified for each use of \fI-:, --next\fP.
This option does not imply \fI-f, --fail\fP, which causes transfers to fail due to the
server's HTTP status code. You can combine the two options, however note \fI-f, --fail\fP
is not global and is therefore contained by \fI-:, --next\fP.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "-f, --fail"
(HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done to
better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In normal cases
when an HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an HTML document
stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will prevent
curl from outputting that and return error 22.
This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where non-successful
response codes will slip through, especially when authentication is involved
(response codes 401 and 407).
.IP "--false-start"
(TLS) Tells curl to use false start during the TLS handshake. False start is a mode
where a TLS client will start sending application data before verifying the
server's Finished message, thus saving a round trip when performing a full
handshake.
This is currently only implemented in the NSS and Secure Transport (on iOS 7.0
or later, or OS X 10.9 or later) backends.
Added in 7.42.0.
.IP "--form-string <name=string>"
(HTTP SMTP IMAP) Similar to \fI-F, --form\fP except that the value string for the named parameter is used
literally. Leading \&'@' and \&'<' characters, and the \&';type=' string in
the value have no special meaning. Use this in preference to \fI-F, --form\fP if
there's any possibility that the string value may accidentally trigger the
\&'@' or \&'<' features of \fI-F, --form\fP.
See also \fI-F, --form\fP.
.IP "-F, --form <name=content>"
(HTTP SMTP IMAP) For HTTP protocol family, this lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a
user has pressed the submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the
Content-Type multipart/form-data according to RFC 2388.
For SMTP and IMAP protocols, this is the mean to compose a multipart mail
message to transmit.
This enables uploading of binary
files etc. To force the 'content' part to be a file, prefix the file name with
an @ sign. To just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with
the symbol <. The difference between @ and < is then that @ makes a file get
attached in the post as a file upload, while the < makes a text field and just
get the contents for that text field from a file.
Example: to send an image to an HTTP server, where \&'profile' is the name of
the form-field to which portrait.jpg will be the input:
curl -F profile=@portrait.jpg https://example.com/upload.cgi
To read content from stdin instead of a file, use - as the filename. This goes
for both @ and < constructs. If stdin is not attached to a regular file, it is
buffered first to determine its size and allow a possible resend. Defining a
part's data from a named non-regular file (such as a named pipe or similar) is
unfortunately not subject to buffering and will be effectively read at
transmission time; since the full size is unknown before the transfer starts,
data is sent as chunks by HTTP and rejected by IMAP.
You can also tell curl what Content-Type to use by using 'type=', in a manner
similar to:
curl -F "web=@index.html;type=text/html" example.com
or
curl -F "name=daniel;type=text/foo" example.com
You can also explicitly change the name field of a file upload part by setting
filename=, like this:
curl -F "file=@localfile;filename=nameinpost" example.com
If filename/path contains ',' or ';', it must be quoted by double-quotes like:
curl -F "file=@\\"localfile\\";filename=\\"nameinpost\\"" example.com
or
curl -F 'file=@"localfile";filename="nameinpost"' example.com
Note that if a filename/path is quoted by double-quotes, any double-quote
or backslash within the filename must be escaped by backslash.
Quoting must also be applied to non-file data if it contains semicolons,
leading/trailing spaces or leading double quotes:
curl -F 'colors="red; green; blue";type=text/x-myapp' example.com
You can add custom headers to the field by setting headers=, like
curl -F "submit=OK;headers=\\"X-submit-type: OK\\"" example.com
or
curl -F "submit=OK;headers=@headerfile" example.com
The headers= keyword may appear more that once and above notes about quoting
apply. When headers are read from a file, Empty lines and lines starting
with '#' are comments and ignored; each header can be folded by splitting
between two words and starting the continuation line with a space; embedded
carriage-returns and trailing spaces are stripped.
Here is an example of a header file contents:
# This file contain two headers.
.br
X-header-1: this is a header
# The following header is folded.
.br
X-header-2: this is
.br
another header
To support sending multipart mail messages, the syntax is extended as follows:
.br
- name can be omitted: the equal sign is the first character of the argument,
.br
- if data starts with '(', this signals to start a new multipart: it can be
followed by a content type specification.
.br
- a multipart can be terminated with a '=)' argument.
Example: the following command sends an SMTP mime e-mail consisting in an
inline part in two alternative formats: plain text and HTML. It attaches a
text file:
curl -F '=(;type=multipart/alternative' \\
.br
-F '=plain text message' \\
.br
-F '= <body>HTML message</body>;type=text/html' \\
.br
-F '=)' -F '=@textfile.txt' ... smtp://example.com
Data can be encoded for transfer using encoder=. Available encodings are
\fIbinary\fP and \fI8bit\fP that do nothing else than adding the corresponding
Content-Transfer-Encoding header, \fI7bit\fP that only rejects 8-bit characters
with a transfer error, \fIquoted-printable\fP and \fIbase64\fP that encodes
data according to the corresponding schemes, limiting lines length to
76 characters.
Example: send multipart mail with a quoted-printable text message and a
base64 attached file:
curl -F '=text message;encoder=quoted-printable' \\
.br
-F '=@localfile;encoder=base64' ... smtp://example.com
See further examples and details in the MANUAL.
This option can be used multiple times.
This option overrides \fI-d, --data\fP and \fI-I, --head\fP and \fI--upload\fP.
.IP "--ftp-account <data>"
(FTP) When an FTP server asks for "account data" after user name and password has
been provided, this data is sent off using the ACCT command.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.13.0.
.IP "--ftp-alternative-to-user <command>"
(FTP) If authenticating with the USER and PASS commands fails, send this command.
When connecting to Tumbleweed's Secure Transport server over FTPS using a
client certificate, using "SITE AUTH" will tell the server to retrieve the
username from the certificate.
Added in 7.15.5.
.IP "--ftp-create-dirs"
(FTP SFTP) When an FTP or SFTP URL/operation uses a path that doesn't currently exist on
the server, the standard behavior of curl is to fail. Using this option, curl
will instead attempt to create missing directories.
See also \fI--create-dirs\fP.
.IP "--ftp-method <method>"
(FTP) Control what method curl should use to reach a file on an FTP(S)
server. The method argument should be one of the following alternatives:
.RS
.IP multicwd
curl does a single CWD operation for each path part in the given URL. For deep
hierarchies this means very many commands. This is how RFC 1738 says it should
be done. This is the default but the slowest behavior.
.IP nocwd
curl does no CWD at all. curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR etc and give a full
path to the server for all these commands. This is the fastest behavior.
.IP singlecwd
curl does one CWD with the full target directory and then operates on the file
\&"normally" (like in the multicwd case). This is somewhat more standards
compliant than 'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'.
.RE
Added in 7.15.1.
.IP "--ftp-pasv"
(FTP) Use passive mode for the data connection. Passive is the internal default
behavior, but using this option can be used to override a previous \fI-P, --ftp-port\fP
option.
If this option is used several times, only the first one is used. Undoing an
enforced passive really isn't doable but you must then instead enforce the
correct \fI-P, --ftp-port\fP again.
Passive mode means that curl will try the EPSV command first and then PASV,
unless \fI--disable-epsv\fP is used.
See also \fI--disable-epsv\fP. Added in 7.11.0.
.IP "-P, --ftp-port <address>"
(FTP) Reverses the default initiator/listener roles when connecting with FTP. This
option makes curl use active mode. curl then tells the server to connect back
to the client's specified address and port, while passive mode asks the server
to setup an IP address and port for it to connect to. <address> should be one
of:
.RS
.IP interface
i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you want to use (Unix only)
.IP "IP address"
i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify the exact IP address
.IP "host name"
i.e "my.host.domain" to specify the machine
.IP "-"
make curl pick the same IP address that is already used for the control
connection
.RE
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. Disable the
use of PORT with \fI--ftp-pasv\fP. Disable the attempt to use the EPRT command
instead of PORT by using \fI--disable-eprt\fP. EPRT is really PORT++.
Since 7.19.5, you can append \&":[start]-[end]\&" to the right of the address,
to tell curl what TCP port range to use. That means you specify a port range,
from a lower to a higher number. A single number works as well, but do note
that it increases the risk of failure since the port may not be available.
See also \fI--ftp-pasv\fP and \fI--disable-eprt\fP.
.IP "--ftp-pret"
(FTP) Tell curl to send a PRET command before PASV (and EPSV). Certain FTP servers,
mainly drftpd, require this non-standard command for directory listings as
well as up and downloads in PASV mode.
Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "--ftp-skip-pasv-ip"
(FTP) Tell curl to not use the IP address the server suggests in its response
to curl's PASV command when curl connects the data connection. Instead curl
will re-use the same IP address it already uses for the control
connection.
This option has no effect if PORT, EPRT or EPSV is used instead of PASV.
See also \fI--ftp-pasv\fP. Added in 7.14.2.
.IP "--ftp-ssl-ccc-mode <active/passive>"
(FTP) Sets the CCC mode. The passive mode will not initiate the shutdown, but
instead wait for the server to do it, and will not reply to the shutdown from
the server. The active mode initiates the shutdown and waits for a reply from
the server.
See also \fI--ftp-ssl-ccc\fP. Added in 7.16.2.
.IP "--ftp-ssl-ccc"
(FTP) Use CCC (Clear Command Channel) Shuts down the SSL/TLS layer after
authenticating. The rest of the control channel communication will be
unencrypted. This allows NAT routers to follow the FTP transaction. The
default mode is passive.
See also \fI--ssl\fP and \fI--ftp-ssl-ccc-mode\fP. Added in 7.16.1.
.IP "--ftp-ssl-control"
(FTP) Require SSL/TLS for the FTP login, clear for transfer. Allows secure
authentication, but non-encrypted data transfers for efficiency. Fails the
transfer if the server doesn't support SSL/TLS.
Added in 7.16.0.
.IP "-G, --get"
When used, this option will make all data specified with \fI-d, --data\fP, \fI--data-binary\fP
or \fI--data-urlencode\fP to be used in an HTTP GET request instead of the POST
request that otherwise would be used. The data will be appended to the URL
with a '?' separator.
If used in combination with \fI-I, --head\fP, the POST data will instead be appended to
the URL with a HEAD request.
If this option is used several times, only the first one is used. This is
because undoing a GET doesn't make sense, but you should then instead enforce
the alternative method you prefer.
.IP "-g, --globoff"
This option switches off the "URL globbing parser". When you set this option,
you can specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having them being
interpreted by curl itself. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL
contents but they should be encoded according to the URI standard.
.IP "-I, --head"
(HTTP FTP FILE) Fetch the headers only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD which this uses
to get nothing but the header of a document. When used on an FTP or FILE file,
curl displays the file size and last modification time only.
.IP "-H, --header <header/@file>"
(HTTP) Extra header to include in the request when sending HTTP to a server. You may
specify any number of extra headers. Note that if you should add a custom
header that has the same name as one of the internal ones curl would use, your
externally set header will be used instead of the internal one. This allows
you to make even trickier stuff than curl would normally do. You should not
replace internally set headers without knowing perfectly well what you're
doing. Remove an internal header by giving a replacement without content on
the right side of the colon, as in: -H \&"Host:". If you send the custom
header with no-value then its header must be terminated with a semicolon, such
as \-H \&"X-Custom-Header;" to send "X-Custom-Header:".
curl will make sure that each header you add/replace is sent with the proper
end-of-line marker, you should thus \fBnot\fP add that as a part of the header
content: do not add newlines or carriage returns, they will only mess things up
for you.
Starting in 7.55.0, this option can take an argument in @filename style, which
then adds a header for each line in the input file. Using @- will make curl
read the header file from stdin.
See also the \fI-A, --user-agent\fP and \fI-e, --referer\fP options.
Starting in 7.37.0, you need \fI--proxy-header\fP to send custom headers intended
for a proxy.
Example:
curl -H "X-First-Name: Joe" http://example.com/
\fBWARNING\fP: headers set with this option will be set in all requests - even
after redirects are followed, like when told with \fI-L, --location\fP. This can lead to
the header being sent to other hosts than the original host, so sensitive
headers should be used with caution combined with following redirects.
This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.
.IP "-h, --help"
Usage help. This lists all current command line options with a short
description.
.IP "--hostpubmd5 <md5>"
(SFTP SCP) Pass a string containing 32 hexadecimal digits. The string should
be the 128 bit MD5 checksum of the remote host's public key, curl will refuse
the connection with the host unless the md5sums match.
Added in 7.17.1.
.IP "-0, --http1.0"
(HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP version 1.0 instead of using its internally preferred
HTTP version.
This option overrides \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP.
.IP "--http1.1"
(HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP version 1.1.
This option overrides \fI-0, --http1.0\fP and \fI--http2\fP. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "--http2-prior-knowledge"
(HTTP) Tells curl to issue its non-TLS HTTP requests using HTTP/2 without HTTP/1.1
Upgrade. It requires prior knowledge that the server supports HTTP/2 straight
away. HTTPS requests will still do HTTP/2 the standard way with negotiated
protocol version in the TLS handshake.
\fI--http2-prior-knowledge\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support HTTP/2. This option overrides \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI-0, --http1.0\fP and \fI--http2\fP. Added in 7.49.0.
.IP "--http2"
(HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP version 2.
See also \fI--no-alpn\fP. \fI--http2\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support HTTP/2. This option overrides \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI-0, --http1.0\fP and \fI--http2-prior-knowledge\fP. Added in 7.33.0.
.IP "--ignore-content-length"
(FTP HTTP) For HTTP, Ignore the Content-Length header. This is particularly useful for
servers running Apache 1.x, which will report incorrect Content-Length for
files larger than 2 gigabytes.
For FTP (since 7.46.0), skip the RETR command to figure out the size before
downloading a file.
.IP "-i, --include"
Include the HTTP response headers in the output. The HTTP response headers can
include things like server name, cookies, date of the document, HTTP version
and more...
To view the request headers, consider the \fI-v, --verbose\fP option.
See also \fI-v, --verbose\fP.
.IP "-k, --insecure"
(TLS)
By default, every SSL connection curl makes is verified to be secure. This
option allows curl to proceed and operate even for server connections
otherwise considered insecure.
The server connection is verified by making sure the server's certificate
contains the right name and verifies successfully using the cert store.
See this online resource for further details:
https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
See also \fI--proxy-insecure\fP and \fI--cacert\fP.
.IP "--interface <name>"
Perform an operation using a specified interface. You can enter interface
name, IP address or host name. An example could look like:
curl --interface eth0:1 https://www.example.com/
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
On Linux it can be used to specify a VRF, but the binary needs to either
have CAP_NET_RAW or to be ran as root. More information about Linux VRF:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
See also \fI--dns-interface\fP.
.IP "-4, --ipv4"
This option tells curl to resolve names to IPv4 addresses only, and not for
example try IPv6.
See also \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP. This option overrides \fI-6, --ipv6\fP.
.IP "-6, --ipv6"
This option tells curl to resolve names to IPv6 addresses only, and not for
example try IPv4.
See also \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP. This option overrides \fI-6, --ipv6\fP.
.IP "-j, --junk-session-cookies"
(HTTP) When curl is told to read cookies from a given file, this option will make it
discard all "session cookies". This will basically have the same effect as if
a new session is started. Typical browsers always discard session cookies when
they're closed down.
See also \fI-b, --cookie\fP and \fI-c, --cookie-jar\fP.
.IP "--keepalive-time <seconds>"
This option sets the time a connection needs to remain idle before sending
keepalive probes and the time between individual keepalive probes. It is
currently effective on operating systems offering the TCP_KEEPIDLE and
TCP_KEEPINTVL socket options (meaning Linux, recent AIX, HP-UX and more). This
option has no effect if \fI--no-keepalive\fP is used.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. If
unspecified, the option defaults to 60 seconds.
Added in 7.18.0.
.IP "--key-type <type>"
(TLS) Private key file type. Specify which type your \fI--key\fP provided private key
is. DER, PEM, and ENG are supported. If not specified, PEM is assumed.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--key <key>"
(TLS SSH) Private key file name. Allows you to provide your private key in this separate
file. For SSH, if not specified, curl tries the following candidates in order:
'~/.ssh/id_rsa', '~/.ssh/id_dsa', './id_rsa', './id_dsa'.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--krb <level>"
(FTP) Enable Kerberos authentication and use. The level must be entered and should
be one of 'clear', 'safe', 'confidential', or 'private'. Should you use a
level that is not one of these, 'private' will instead be used.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
\fI--krb\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support Kerberos.
.IP "--libcurl <file>"
Append this option to any ordinary curl command line, and you will get a
libcurl-using C source code written to the file that does the equivalent
of what your command-line operation does!
If this option is used several times, the last given file name will be
used.
Added in 7.16.1.
.IP "--limit-rate <speed>"
Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use - for both downloads
and uploads. This feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like
your transfer not to use your entire bandwidth. To make it slower than it
otherwise would be.
The given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is appended.
Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it
megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.
If you also use the \fI-Y, --speed-limit\fP option, that option will take precedence and
might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to help keeping the speed-limit
logic working.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-l, --list-only"
(FTP POP3) (FTP)
When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces a name-only view. This is
especially useful if the user wants to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look or
format. When used like this, the option causes a NLST command to be sent to
the server instead of LIST.
Note: Some FTP servers list only files in their response to NLST; they do not
include sub-directories and symbolic links.
(POP3)
When retrieving a specific email from POP3, this switch forces a LIST command
to be performed instead of RETR. This is particularly useful if the user wants
to see if a specific message id exists on the server and what size it is.
Note: When combined with \fI-X, --request\fP, this option can be used to send an UIDL
command instead, so the user may use the email's unique identifier rather than
it's message id to make the request.
Added in 7.21.5.
.IP "--local-port <num/range>"
Set a preferred single number or range (FROM-TO) of local port numbers to use
for the connection(s). Note that port numbers by nature are a scarce resource
that will be busy at times so setting this range to something too narrow might
cause unnecessary connection setup failures.
Added in 7.15.2.
.IP "--location-trusted"
(HTTP) Like \fI-L, --location\fP, but will allow sending the name + password to all hosts that
the site may redirect to. This may or may not introduce a security breach if
the site redirects you to a site to which you'll send your authentication info
(which is plaintext in the case of HTTP Basic authentication).
See also \fI-u, --user\fP.
.IP "-L, --location"
(HTTP) If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different
location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this
option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with
\fI-i, --include\fP or \fI-I, --head\fP, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When
authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial
host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to
intercept the user+password. See also \fI--location-trusted\fP on how to change
this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
\fI--max-redirs\fP option.
When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example
POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response
was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will
re-send the following request using the same unmodified method.
You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x
response by using the dedicated options for that: \fI--post301\fP, \fI--post302\fP and
\fI--post303\fP.
.IP "--login-options <options>"
(IMAP POP3 SMTP) Specify the login options to use during server authentication.
You can use the login options to specify protocol specific options that may
be used during authentication. At present only IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support
login options. For more information about the login options please see
RFC 2384, RFC 5092 and IETF draft draft-earhart-url-smtp-00.txt
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.34.0.
.IP "--mail-auth <address>"
(SMTP) Specify a single address. This will be used to specify the authentication
address (identity) of a submitted message that is being relayed to another
server.
See also \fI--mail-rcpt\fP and \fI--mail-from\fP. Added in 7.25.0.
.IP "--mail-from <address>"
(SMTP) Specify a single address that the given mail should get sent from.
See also \fI--mail-rcpt\fP and \fI--mail-auth\fP. Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "--mail-rcpt <address>"
(SMTP) Specify a single address, user name or mailing list name. Repeat this
option several times to send to multiple recipients.
When performing a mail transfer, the recipient should specify a valid email
address to send the mail to.
When performing an address verification (VRFY command), the recipient should be
specified as the user name or user name and domain (as per Section 3.5 of
RFC5321). (Added in 7.34.0)
When performing a mailing list expand (EXPN command), the recipient should be
specified using the mailing list name, such as "Friends" or "London-Office".
(Added in 7.34.0)
Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "-M, --manual"
Manual. Display the huge help text.
.IP "--max-filesize <bytes>"
Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of a file to download. If the file
requested is larger than this value, the transfer will not start and curl will
return with exit code 63.
A size modifier may be used. For example, Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the
number as kilobytes, 'm' or 'M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it
gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G. (Added in 7.58.0)
\fBNOTE:\fP The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such
files this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger
than this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers.
See also \fI--limit-rate\fP.
.IP "--max-redirs <num>"
(HTTP) Set maximum number of redirection-followings allowed. When \fI-L, --location\fP is used,
is used to prevent curl from following redirections \&"in absurdum". By
default, the limit is set to 50 redirections. Set this option to -1 to make it
unlimited.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-m, --max-time <time>"
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. Since 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal
values, but the actual timeout will decrease in accuracy as the specified
timeout increases in decimal precision.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI--connect-timeout\fP.
.IP "--metalink"
This option can tell curl to parse and process a given URI as Metalink file
(both version 3 and 4 (RFC 5854) are supported) and make use of the mirrors
listed within for failover if there are errors (such as the file or server not
being available). It will also verify the hash of the file after the download
completes. The Metalink file itself is downloaded and processed in memory and
not stored in the local file system.
Example to use a remote Metalink file:
curl --metalink http://www.example.com/example.metalink
To use a Metalink file in the local file system, use FILE protocol (file://):
curl --metalink file://example.metalink
Please note that if FILE protocol is disabled, there is no way to use a local
Metalink file at the time of this writing. Also note that if \fI--metalink\fP and
\fI-i, --include\fP are used together, --include will be ignored. This is because
including headers in the response will break Metalink parser and if the
headers are included in the file described in Metalink file, hash check will
fail.
\fI--metalink\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support metalink. Added in 7.27.0.
.IP "--negotiate"
(HTTP) Enables Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication.
This option requires a library built with GSS-API or SSPI support. Use
\fI-V, --version\fP to see if your curl supports GSS-API/SSPI or SPNEGO.
When using this option, you must also provide a fake \fI-u, --user\fP option to activate
the authentication code properly. Sending a '-u :' is enough as the user name
and password from the \fI-u, --user\fP option aren't actually used.
If this option is used several times, only the first one is used.
See also \fI--basic\fP and \fI--ntlm\fP and \fI--anyauth\fP and \fI--proxy-negotiate\fP.
.IP "--netrc-file <filename>"
This option is similar to \fI-n, --netrc\fP, except that you provide the path (absolute
or relative) to the netrc file that Curl should use. You can only specify one
netrc file per invocation. If several \fI--netrc-file\fP options are provided,
the last one will be used.
It will abide by \fI--netrc-optional\fP if specified.
This option overrides \fI-n, --netrc\fP. Added in 7.21.5.
.IP "--netrc-optional"
Very similar to \fI-n, --netrc\fP, but this option makes the .netrc usage \fBoptional\fP
and not mandatory as the \fI-n, --netrc\fP option does.
See also \fI--netrc-file\fP. This option overrides \fI-n, --netrc\fP.
.IP "-n, --netrc"
Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's
home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on
Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
\fInetrc(5)\fP \fIftp(1)\fP for details on the file format. Curl will not
complain if that file doesn't have the right permissions (it should not be
either world- or group-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to
find the home directory.
A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl
to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
\&'secret' should look similar to:
.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"
.IP "-:, --next"
Tells curl to use a separate operation for the following URL and associated
options. This allows you to send several URL requests, each with their own
specific options, for example, such as different user names or custom requests
for each.
\fI-:, --next\fP will reset all local options and only global ones will have their
values survive over to the operation following the \fI-:, --next\fP instruction. Global
options include \fI-v, --verbose\fP, \fI--trace\fP, \fI--trace-ascii\fP and \fI--fail-early\fP.
For example, you can do both a GET and a POST in a single command line:
curl www1.example.com --next -d postthis www2.example.com
Added in 7.36.0.
.IP "--no-alpn"
(HTTPS) Disable the ALPN TLS extension. ALPN is enabled by default if libcurl was built
with an SSL library that supports ALPN. ALPN is used by a libcurl that supports
HTTP/2 to negotiate HTTP/2 support with the server during https sessions.
See also \fI--no-npn\fP and \fI--http2\fP. \fI--no-alpn\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. Added in 7.36.0.
.IP "-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 necessarily exactly when the data arrives.
Using this option will disable that buffering.
Note that this is the negated option name documented. You can thus use
--buffer to enforce the buffering.
.IP "--no-keepalive"
Disables the use of keepalive messages on the TCP connection. curl otherwise
enables them by default.
Note that this is the negated option name documented. You can thus use
--keepalive to enforce keepalive.
.IP "--no-npn"
(HTTPS) Disable the NPN TLS extension. NPN is enabled by default if libcurl was built
with an SSL library that supports NPN. NPN is used by a libcurl that supports
HTTP/2 to negotiate HTTP/2 support with the server during https sessions.
See also \fI--no-alpn\fP and \fI--http2\fP. \fI--no-npn\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. Added in 7.36.0.
.IP "--no-sessionid"
(TLS) Disable curl's use of SSL session-ID caching. By default all transfers are
done using the cache. Note that while nothing should ever get hurt by
attempting to reuse SSL session-IDs, there seem to be broken SSL
implementations in the wild that may require you to disable this in order for
you to succeed.
Note that this is the negated option name documented. You can thus use
--sessionid to enforce session-ID caching.
Added in 7.16.0.
.IP "--noproxy <no-proxy-list>"
Comma-separated list of hosts which do not use a proxy, if one is specified.
The only wildcard is a single * character, which matches all hosts, and
effectively disables the proxy. Each name in this list is matched as either
a domain which contains the hostname, or the hostname itself. For example,
local.com would match local.com, local.com:80, and www.local.com, but not
www.notlocal.com.
Since 7.53.0, This option overrides the environment variables that disable the
proxy. If there's an environment variable disabling a proxy, you can set
noproxy list to \&"" to override it.
Added in 7.19.4.
.IP "--ntlm-wb"
(HTTP) Enables NTLM much in the style \fI--ntlm\fP does, but hand over the authentication
to the separate binary ntlmauth application that is executed when needed.
See also \fI--ntlm\fP and \fI--proxy-ntlm\fP.
.IP "--ntlm"
(HTTP) Enables NTLM authentication. The NTLM authentication method was designed by
Microsoft and is used by IIS web servers. It is a proprietary protocol,
reverse-engineered by clever people and implemented in curl based on their
efforts. This kind of behavior should not be endorsed, you should encourage
everyone who uses NTLM to switch to a public and documented authentication
method instead, such as Digest.
If you want to enable NTLM for your proxy authentication, then use
\fI--proxy-ntlm\fP.
If this option is used several times, only the first one is used.
See also \fI--proxy-ntlm\fP. \fI--ntlm\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. This option overrides \fI--basic\fP and \fI--negotiated\fP and \fI--digest\fP and \fI--anyauth\fP.
.IP "--oauth2-bearer <token>"
(IMAP POP3 SMTP) Specify the Bearer Token for OAUTH 2.0 server authentication. The Bearer Token
is used in conjunction with the user name which can be specified as part of
the \fI--url\fP or \fI-u, --user\fP options.
The Bearer Token and user name are formatted according to RFC 6750.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-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}.example.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 the number of URLs you have. For
example, if you specify two URLs on the same command line, you can use it like
this:
curl -o aa example.com -o bb example.net
and the order of the -o options and the URLs doesn't matter, just that the
first -o is for the first URL and so on, so the above command line can also be
written as
curl example.com example.net -o aa -o bb
See also the \fI--create-dirs\fP option to create the local directories
dynamically. Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash) will force the
output to be done to stdout.
See also \fI-O, --remote-name\fP and \fI--remote-name-all\fP and \fI-J, --remote-header-name\fP.
.IP "--pass <phrase>"
(SSH TLS) Passphrase for the private key
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--path-as-is"
Tell curl to not handle sequences of /../ or /./ in the given URL
path. Normally curl will squash or merge them according to standards but with
this option set you tell it not to do that.
Added in 7.42.0.
.IP "--pinnedpubkey <hashes>"
(TLS) Tells curl to use the specified public key file (or hashes) to verify the
peer. This can be a path to a file which contains a single public key in PEM
or DER format, or any number of base64 encoded sha256 hashes preceded by
\'sha256//\' and separated by \';\'
When negotiating a TLS or SSL connection, the server sends a certificate
indicating its identity. A public key is extracted from this certificate and
if it does not exactly match the public key provided to this option, curl will
abort the connection before sending or receiving any data.
PEM/DER support:
7.39.0: OpenSSL, GnuTLS and GSKit
7.43.0: NSS and wolfSSL/CyaSSL
7.47.0: mbedtls
7.49.0: PolarSSL
sha256 support:
7.44.0: OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS and wolfSSL/CyaSSL.
7.47.0: mbedtls
7.49.0: PolarSSL
Other SSL backends not supported.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--post301"
(HTTP) Tells curl to respect RFC 7231/6.4.2 and not convert POST requests into GET
requests when following a 301 redirection. The non-RFC behaviour is ubiquitous
in web browsers, so curl does the conversion by default to maintain
consistency. However, a server may require a POST to remain a POST after such
a redirection. This option is meaningful only when using \fI-L, --location\fP.
See also \fI--post302\fP and \fI--post303\fP and \fI-L, --location\fP. Added in 7.17.1.
.IP "--post302"
(HTTP) Tells curl to respect RFC 7231/6.4.3 and not convert POST requests into GET
requests when following a 302 redirection. The non-RFC behaviour is ubiquitous
in web browsers, so curl does the conversion by default to maintain
consistency. However, a server may require a POST to remain a POST after such
a redirection. This option is meaningful only when using \fI-L, --location\fP.
See also \fI--post301\fP and \fI--post303\fP and \fI-L, --location\fP. Added in 7.19.1.
.IP "--post303"
(HTTP) Tells curl to respect RFC 7231/6.4.4 and not convert POST requests into GET
requests when following a 303 redirection. The non-RFC behaviour is ubiquitous
in web browsers, so curl does the conversion by default to maintain
consistency. However, a server may require a POST to remain a POST after such
a redirection. This option is meaningful only when using \fI-L, --location\fP.
See also \fI--post302\fP and \fI--post301\fP and \fI-L, --location\fP. Added in 7.26.0.
.IP "--preproxy [protocol://]host[:port]"
Use the specified SOCKS proxy before connecting to an HTTP or HTTPS \fI-x, --proxy\fP. In
such a case curl first connects to the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through
SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy. Hence pre proxy.
The pre proxy string should be specified with a protocol:// prefix to specify
alternative proxy protocols. Use socks4://, socks4a://, socks5:// or
socks5h:// to request the specific SOCKS version to be used. No protocol
specified will make curl default to SOCKS4.
If the port number is not specified in the proxy string, it is assumed to be
1080.
User and password that might be provided in the proxy string are URL decoded
by curl. This allows you to pass in special characters such as @ by using %40
or pass in a colon with %3a.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "-#, --progress-bar"
Make curl display transfer progress as a simple progress bar instead of the
standard, more informational, meter.
This progress bar draws a single line of '#' characters across the screen and
shows a percentage if the transfer size is known. For transfers without a
known size, it will instead output one '#' character for every 1024 bytes
transferred.
.IP "--proto-default <protocol>"
Tells curl to use \fIprotocol\fP for any URL missing a scheme name.
Example:
curl --proto-default https ftp.mozilla.org
An unknown or unsupported protocol causes error
\fICURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL\fP (1).
This option does not change the default proxy protocol (http).
Without this option curl would make a guess based on the host, see \fI--url\fP for
details.
Added in 7.45.0.
.IP "--proto-redir <protocols>"
Tells curl to limit what protocols it may use on redirect. Protocols denied by
\fI--proto\fP are not overridden by this option. See --proto for how protocols are
represented.
Example, allow only HTTP and HTTPS on redirect:
curl --proto-redir -all,http,https http://example.com
By default curl will allow all protocols on redirect except several disabled
for security reasons: Since 7.19.4 FILE and SCP are disabled, and since 7.40.0
SMB and SMBS are also disabled. Specifying \fIall\fP or \fI+all\fP enables all
protocols on redirect, including those disabled for security.
Added in 7.20.2.
.IP "--proto <protocols>"
Tells curl to limit what protocols it may use in the transfer. Protocols are
evaluated left to right, are comma separated, and are each a protocol name or
'all', optionally prefixed by zero or more modifiers. Available modifiers are:
.RS
.TP 3
.B +
Permit this protocol in addition to protocols already permitted (this is
the default if no modifier is used).
.TP
.B -
Deny this protocol, removing it from the list of protocols already permitted.
.TP
.B =
Permit only this protocol (ignoring the list already permitted), though
subject to later modification by subsequent entries in the comma separated
list.
.RE
.IP
For example:
.RS
.TP 15
.B \fI--proto\fP -ftps
uses the default protocols, but disables ftps
.TP
.B \fI--proto\fP -all,https,+http
only enables http and https
.TP
.B \fI--proto\fP =http,https
also only enables http and https
.RE
Unknown protocols produce a warning. This allows scripts to safely rely on
being able to disable potentially dangerous protocols, without relying upon
support for that protocol being built into curl to avoid an error.
This option can be used multiple times, in which case the effect is the same
as concatenating the protocols into one instance of the option.
See also \fI--proto-redir\fP and \fI--proto-default\fP. Added in 7.20.2.
.IP "--proxy-anyauth"
Tells curl to pick a suitable authentication method when communicating with
the given HTTP proxy. This might cause an extra request/response round-trip.
See also \fI-x, --proxy\fP and \fI--proxy-basic\fP and \fI--proxy-digest\fP. Added in 7.13.2.
.IP "--proxy-basic"
Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication when communicating with the given
proxy. Use \fI--basic\fP for enabling HTTP Basic with a remote host. Basic is the
default authentication method curl uses with proxies.
See also \fI-x, --proxy\fP and \fI--proxy-anyauth\fP and \fI--proxy-digest\fP.
.IP "--proxy-cacert <file>"
Same as \fI--cacert\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
See also \fI--proxy-capath\fP and \fI--cacert\fP and \fI--capath\fP and \fI-x, --proxy\fP. Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-capath <dir>"
Same as \fI--capath\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
See also \fI--proxy-cacert\fP and \fI-x, --proxy\fP and \fI--capath\fP. Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-cert-type <type>"
Same as \fI--cert-type\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-cert <cert[:passwd]>"
Same as \fI-E, --cert\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-ciphers <list>"
Same as \fI--ciphers\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-crlfile <file>"
Same as \fI--crlfile\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-digest"
Tells curl to use HTTP Digest authentication when communicating with the given
proxy. Use \fI--digest\fP for enabling HTTP Digest with a remote host.
See also \fI-x, --proxy\fP and \fI--proxy-anyauth\fP and \fI--proxy-basic\fP.
.IP "--proxy-header <header/@file>"
(HTTP) Extra header to include in the request when sending HTTP to a proxy. You may
specify any number of extra headers. This is the equivalent option to \fI-H, --header\fP
but is for proxy communication only like in CONNECT requests when you want a
separate header sent to the proxy to what is sent to the actual remote host.
curl will make sure that each header you add/replace is sent with the proper
end-of-line marker, you should thus \fBnot\fP add that as a part of the header
content: do not add newlines or carriage returns, they will only mess things
up for you.
Headers specified with this option will not be included in requests that curl
knows will not be sent to a proxy.
Starting in 7.55.0, this option can take an argument in @filename style, which
then adds a header for each line in the input file. Using @- will make curl
read the header file from stdin.
This option can be used multiple times to add/replace/remove multiple headers.
Added in 7.37.0.
.IP "--proxy-insecure"
Same as \fI-k, --insecure\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-key-type <type>"
Same as \fI--key-type\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-key <key>"
Same as \fI--key\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
.IP "--proxy-negotiate"
Tells curl to use HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO) authentication when communicating
with the given proxy. Use \fI--negotiate\fP for enabling HTTP Negotiate (SPNEGO)
with a remote host.
See also \fI--proxy-anyauth\fP and \fI--proxy-basic\fP. Added in 7.17.1.
.IP "--proxy-ntlm"
Tells curl to use HTTP NTLM authentication when communicating with the given
proxy. Use \fI--ntlm\fP for enabling NTLM with a remote host.
See also \fI--proxy-negotiate\fP and \fI--proxy-anyauth\fP.
.IP "--proxy-pass <phrase>"
Same as \fI--pass\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-service-name <name>"
This option allows you to change the service name for proxy negotiation.
Added in 7.43.0.
.IP "--proxy-ssl-allow-beast"
Same as \fI--ssl-allow-beast\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-tlsauthtype <type>"
Same as \fI--tlsauthtype\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-tlspassword <string>"
Same as \fI--tlspassword\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-tlsuser <name>"
Same as \fI--tlsuser\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--proxy-tlsv1"
Same as \fI-1, --tlsv1\fP but used in HTTPS proxy context.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "-U, --proxy-user <user:password>"
Specify the user name and password to use for proxy authentication.
If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and do either Negotiate or NTLM
authentication then you can tell curl to select the user name and password
from your environment by specifying a single colon with this option: "-U :".
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-x, --proxy [protocol://]host[:port]"
Use the specified proxy.
The proxy string can be specified with a protocol:// prefix. No protocol
specified or http:// will be treated as HTTP proxy. Use socks4://, socks4a://,
socks5:// or socks5h:// to request a specific SOCKS version to be used.
(The protocol support was added in curl 7.21.7)
HTTPS proxy support via https:// protocol prefix was added in 7.52.0 for
OpenSSL, GnuTLS and NSS.
Unrecognized and unsupported proxy protocols cause an error since 7.52.0.
Prior versions may ignore the protocol and use http:// instead.
If the port number is not specified in the proxy string, it is assumed to be
1080.
This option overrides existing environment variables that set the proxy to
use. If there's an environment variable setting a proxy, you can set proxy to
\&"" to override it.
All operations that are performed over an HTTP proxy will transparently 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
one with the \fI-p, --proxytunnel\fP option.
User and password that might be provided in the proxy string are URL decoded
by curl. This allows you to pass in special characters such as @ by using %40
or pass in a colon with %3a.
The proxy host can be specified the exact same way as the proxy environment
variables, including the protocol prefix (http://) and the embedded user +
password.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--proxy1.0 <host[:port]>"
Use the specified HTTP 1.0 proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is
assumed at port 1080.
The only difference between this and the HTTP proxy option \fI-x, --proxy\fP, is that
attempts to use CONNECT through the proxy will specify an HTTP 1.0 protocol
instead of the default HTTP 1.1.
.IP "-p, --proxytunnel"
When an HTTP proxy is used \fI-x, --proxy\fP, 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
number curl wants to tunnel through to.
To suppress proxy CONNECT response headers when curl is set to output headers
use \fI--suppress-connect-headers\fP.
See also \fI-x, --proxy\fP.
.IP "--pubkey <key>"
(SFTP SCP) Public key file name. Allows you to provide your public key in this separate
file.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
(As of 7.39.0, curl attempts to automatically extract the public key from the
private key file, so passing this option is generally not required. Note that
this public key extraction requires libcurl to be linked against a copy of
libssh2 1.2.8 or higher that is itself linked against OpenSSL.)
.IP "-Q, --quote"
(FTP SFTP)
Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP or SFTP server. Quote commands are
sent BEFORE the transfer takes place (just after the initial PWD command in an
FTP transfer, to be exact). To make commands take place after a successful
transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. To make commands be sent after curl
has changed the working directory, just before the transfer command(s), prefix
the command with a '+' (this is only supported for FTP). You may specify any
number of commands.
If the server returns failure for one of the commands, the entire operation
will be aborted. You must send syntactically correct FTP commands as RFC 959
defines to FTP servers, or one of the commands listed below to SFTP servers.
This option can be used multiple times. When speaking to an FTP server, prefix
the command with an asterisk (*) to make curl continue even if the command
fails as by default curl will stop at first failure.
SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for FTP, curl interprets SFTP quote commands
itself before sending them to the server. File names may be quoted
shell-style to embed spaces or special characters. Following is the list of
all supported SFTP quote commands:
.RS
.IP "chgrp group file"
The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named by the file operand to
the group ID specified by the group operand. The group operand is a decimal
integer group ID.
.IP "chmod mode file"
The chmod command modifies the file mode bits of the specified file. The
mode operand is an octal integer mode number.
.IP "chown user file"
The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the file operand to the
user ID specified by the user operand. The user operand is a decimal
integer user ID.
.IP "ln source_file target_file"
The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the target_file location
pointing to the source_file location.
.IP "mkdir directory_name"
The mkdir command creates the directory named by the directory_name operand.
.IP "pwd"
The pwd command returns the absolute pathname of the current working directory.
.IP "rename source target"
The rename command renames the file or directory named by the source
operand to the destination path named by the target operand.
.IP "rm file"
The rm command removes the file specified by the file operand.
.IP "rmdir directory"
The rmdir command removes the directory entry specified by the directory
operand, provided it is empty.
.IP "symlink source_file target_file"
See ln.
.RE
.IP "--random-file <file>"
Specify the path name to file containing what will be considered as random
data. The data may be used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See
also the \fI--egd-file\fP option.
.IP "-r, --range <range>"
(HTTP FTP SFTP FILE) Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial document) from a HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP
server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.
.RS
.TP 10
.B 0-499
specifies the first 500 bytes
.TP
.B 500-999
specifies the second 500 bytes
.TP
.B -500
specifies the last 500 bytes
.TP
.B 9500-
specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward
.TP
.B 0-0,-1
specifies the first and last byte only(*)(HTTP)
.TP
.B 100-199,500-599
specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*) (HTTP)
.RE
.IP
(*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart
response!
Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in the 'start' and 'stop' fields of the
\&'start-stop' range syntax. If a non-digit character is given in the range,
the server's response will be unspecified, depending on the server's
configuration.
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 and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax
(optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP use depends on the extended
FTP command SIZE.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--raw"
(HTTP) When used, it disables all internal HTTP decoding of content or transfer
encodings and instead makes them passed on unaltered, raw.
Added in 7.16.2.
.IP "-e, --referer <URL>"
(HTTP) Sends the "Referrer Page" information to the HTTP server. This can also be set
with the \fI-H, --header\fP flag of course. When used with \fI-L, --location\fP you can append
";auto" to the \fI-e, --referer\fP URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL
when it follows a Location: header. The \&";auto" string can be used alone,
even if you don't set an initial \fI-e, --referer\fP.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-A, --user-agent\fP and \fI-H, --header\fP.
.IP "-J, --remote-header-name"
(HTTP) This option tells the \fI-O, --remote-name\fP option to use the server-specified
Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL.
If the server specifies a file name and a file with that name already exists
in the current working directory it will not be overwritten and an error will
occur. If the server doesn't specify a file name then this option has no
effect.
There's no attempt to decode %-sequences (yet) in the provided file name, so
this option may provide you with rather unexpected file names.
\fBWARNING\fP: Exercise judicious use of this option, especially on Windows. A
rogue server could send you the name of a DLL or other file that could possibly
be loaded automatically by Windows or some third party software.
.IP "--remote-name-all"
This option changes the default action for all given URLs to be dealt with as
if \fI-O, --remote-name\fP were used for each one. So if you want to disable that for a
specific URL after \fI--remote-name-all\fP has been used, you must use "-o -" or
--no-remote-name.
Added in 7.19.0.
.IP "-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.)
The file will be saved in the current working directory. If you want the file
saved in a different directory, make sure you change the current working
directory before invoking curl with this option.
The remote file name to use for saving is extracted from the given URL,
nothing else, and if it already exists it will be overwritten. If you want the
server to be able to choose the file name refer to \fI-J, --remote-header-name\fP which
can be used in addition to this option. If the server chooses a file name and
that name already exists it will not be overwritten.
There is no URL decoding done on the file name. If it has %20 or other URL
encoded parts of the name, they will end up as-is as file name.
You may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you have.
.IP "-R, --remote-time"
When used, this will make curl attempt to figure out the timestamp of the
remote file, and if that is available make the local file get that same
timestamp.
.IP "--request-target"
(HTTP) Tells curl to use an alternative "target" (path) instead of using the path as
provided in the URL. Particularly useful when wanting to issue HTTP requests
without leading slash or other data that doesn't follow the regular URL
pattern, like "OPTIONS *".
Added in 7.55.0.
.IP "-X, --request <command>"
(HTTP) Specifies a custom request method to use when communicating with the
HTTP server. The specified request method will be used instead of the method
otherwise used (which defaults to GET). Read the HTTP 1.1 specification for
details and explanations. Common additional HTTP requests include PUT and
DELETE, but related technologies like WebDAV offers PROPFIND, COPY, MOVE and
more.
Normally you don't need this option. All sorts of GET, HEAD, POST and PUT
requests are rather invoked by using dedicated command line options.
This option only changes the actual word used in the HTTP request, it does not
alter the way curl behaves. So for example if you want to make a proper HEAD
request, using -X HEAD will not suffice. You need to use the \fI-I, --head\fP option.
The method string you set with \fI-X, --request\fP will be used for all requests, which
if you for example use \fI-L, --location\fP may cause unintended side-effects when curl
doesn't change request method according to the HTTP 30x response codes - and
similar.
(FTP)
Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists
with FTP.
(POP3)
Specifies a custom POP3 command to use instead of LIST or RETR. (Added in
7.26.0)
(IMAP)
Specifies a custom IMAP command to use instead of LIST. (Added in 7.30.0)
(SMTP)
Specifies a custom SMTP command to use instead of HELP or VRFY. (Added in 7.34.0)
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--resolve <host:port:address>"
Provide a custom address for a specific host and port pair. Using this, you
can make the curl requests(s) use a specified address and prevent the
otherwise normally resolved address to be used. Consider it a sort of
/etc/hosts alternative provided on the command line. The port number should be
the number used for the specific protocol the host will be used for. It means
you need several entries if you want to provide address for the same host but
different ports.
The provided address set by this option will be used even if \fI-4, --ipv4\fP or \fI-6, --ipv6\fP
is set to make curl use another IP version.
Support for providing the IP address within [brackets] was added in 7.57.0.
This option can be used many times to add many host names to resolve.
Added in 7.21.3.
.IP "--retry-connrefused"
In addition to the other conditions, consider ECONNREFUSED as a transient
error too for \fI--retry\fP. This option is used together with --retry.
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "--retry-delay <seconds>"
Make curl sleep this amount of time before each retry when a transfer has
failed with a transient error (it changes the default backoff time algorithm
between retries). This option is only interesting if \fI--retry\fP is also
used. Setting this delay to zero will make curl use the default backoff time.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.12.3.
.IP "--retry-max-time <seconds>"
The retry timer is reset before the first transfer attempt. Retries will be
done as usual (see \fI--retry\fP) as long as the timer hasn't reached this given
limit. Notice that if the timer hasn't reached the limit, the request will be
made and while performing, it may take longer than this given time period. To
limit a single request\'s maximum time, use \fI-m, --max-time\fP. Set this option to
zero to not timeout retries.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.12.3.
.IP "--retry <num>"
If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it
will retry this number of times before giving up. Setting the number to 0
makes curl do no retries (which is the default). Transient error means either:
a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.
When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then
for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches
10 minutes which then will be the delay between the rest of the retries. By
using \fI--retry-delay\fP you disable this exponential backoff algorithm. See also
\fI--retry-max-time\fP to limit the total time allowed for retries.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.12.3.
.IP "--sasl-ir"
Enable initial response in SASL authentication.
Added in 7.31.0.
.IP "--service-name <name>"
This option allows you to change the service name for SPNEGO.
Examples: \fI--negotiate\fP \fI--service-name\fP sockd would use sockd/server-name.
Added in 7.43.0.
.IP "-S, --show-error"
When used with \fI-s, --silent\fP, it makes curl show an error message if it fails.
.IP "-s, --silent"
Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl
mute. It will still output the data you ask for, potentially even to the
terminal/stdout unless you redirect it.
Use \fI-S, --show-error\fP in addition to this option to disable progress meter but
still show error messages.
See also \fI-v, --verbose\fP and \fI--stderr\fP.
.IP "--socks4 <host[:port]>"
Use the specified SOCKS4 proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is
assumed at port 1080.
This option overrides any previous use of \fI-x, --proxy\fP, as they are mutually
exclusive.
Since 7.21.7, this option is superfluous since you can specify a socks4 proxy
with \fI-x, --proxy\fP using a socks4:// protocol prefix.
Since 7.52.0, \fI--preproxy\fP can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time
\fI-x, --proxy\fP is used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy. In such a case curl first connects to
the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.15.2.
.IP "--socks4a <host[:port]>"
Use the specified SOCKS4a proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is
assumed at port 1080.
This option overrides any previous use of \fI-x, --proxy\fP, as they are mutually
exclusive.
Since 7.21.7, this option is superfluous since you can specify a socks4a proxy
with \fI-x, --proxy\fP using a socks4a:// protocol prefix.
Since 7.52.0, \fI--preproxy\fP can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time
\fI-x, --proxy\fP is used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy. In such a case curl first connects to
the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.18.0.
.IP "--socks5-basic"
Tells curl to use username/password authentication when connecting to a SOCKS5
proxy. The username/password authentication is enabled by default. Use
\fI--socks5-gssapi\fP to force GSS-API authentication to SOCKS5 proxies.
Added in 7.55.0.
.IP "--socks5-gssapi-nec"
As part of the GSS-API negotiation a protection mode is negotiated. RFC 1961
says in section 4.3/4.4 it should be protected, but the NEC reference
implementation does not. The option \fI--socks5-gssapi-nec\fP allows the
unprotected exchange of the protection mode negotiation.
Added in 7.19.4.
.IP "--socks5-gssapi-service <name>"
The default service name for a socks server is rcmd/server-fqdn. This option
allows you to change it.
Examples: \fI--socks5\fP proxy-name \fI--socks5-gssapi-service\fP sockd would use
sockd/proxy-name \fI--socks5\fP proxy-name \fI--socks5-gssapi-service\fP sockd/real-name
would use sockd/real-name for cases where the proxy-name does not match the
principal name.
Added in 7.19.4.
.IP "--socks5-gssapi"
Tells curl to use GSS-API authentication when connecting to a SOCKS5 proxy.
The GSS-API authentication is enabled by default (if curl is compiled with
GSS-API support). Use \fI--socks5-basic\fP to force username/password authentication
to SOCKS5 proxies.
Added in 7.55.0.
.IP "--socks5-hostname <host[:port]>"
Use the specified SOCKS5 proxy (and let the proxy resolve the host name). If
the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.
This option overrides any previous use of \fI-x, --proxy\fP, as they are mutually
exclusive.
Since 7.21.7, this option is superfluous since you can specify a socks5
hostname proxy with \fI-x, --proxy\fP using a socks5h:// protocol prefix.
Since 7.52.0, \fI--preproxy\fP can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time
\fI-x, --proxy\fP is used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy. In such a case curl first connects to
the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.18.0.
.IP "--socks5 <host[:port]>"
Use the specified SOCKS5 proxy - but resolve the host name locally. If the
port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.
This option overrides any previous use of \fI-x, --proxy\fP, as they are mutually
exclusive.
Since 7.21.7, this option is superfluous since you can specify a socks5 proxy
with \fI-x, --proxy\fP using a socks5:// protocol prefix.
Since 7.52.0, \fI--preproxy\fP can be used to specify a SOCKS proxy at the same time
\fI-x, --proxy\fP is used with an HTTP/HTTPS proxy. In such a case curl first connects to
the SOCKS proxy and then connects (through SOCKS) to the HTTP or HTTPS proxy.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
This option (as well as \fI--socks4\fP) does not work with IPV6, FTPS or LDAP.
Added in 7.18.0.
.IP "-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 \fI-y, --speed-time\fP and is
30 if not set.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-y, --speed-time <seconds>"
If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time
period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is used, the default
speed-limit will be 1 unless set with \fI-Y, --speed-limit\fP.
This option controls transfers and thus will not affect slow connects etc. If
this is a concern for you, try the \fI--connect-timeout\fP option.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--ssl-allow-beast"
This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and
TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option isn't used, the SSL layer may
use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older SSL
implementations. WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using
this flag you ask for exactly that.
Added in 7.25.0.
.IP "--ssl-no-revoke"
(WinSSL) This option tells curl to disable certificate revocation checks.
WARNING: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you ask
for exactly that.
Added in 7.44.0.
.IP "--ssl-reqd"
(FTP IMAP POP3 SMTP) Require SSL/TLS for the connection. Terminates the connection if the server
doesn't support SSL/TLS.
This option was formerly known as --ftp-ssl-reqd.
Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "--ssl"
(FTP IMAP POP3 SMTP)
Try to use SSL/TLS for the connection. Reverts to a non-secure connection if
the server doesn't support SSL/TLS. See also \fI--ftp-ssl-control\fP and \fI--ssl-reqd\fP
for different levels of encryption required.
This option was formerly known as --ftp-ssl (Added in 7.11.0). That option
name can still be used but will be removed in a future version.
Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "-2, --sslv2"
(SSL) Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when negotiating with a remote SSL
server. Sometimes curl is built without SSLv2 support. SSLv2 is widely
considered insecure (see RFC 6176).
See also \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP. \fI-2, --sslv2\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. This option overrides \fI-3, --sslv3\fP and \fI-1, --tlsv1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.2\fP.
.IP "-3, --sslv3"
(SSL) Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiating with a remote SSL
server. Sometimes curl is built without SSLv3 support. SSLv3 is widely
considered insecure (see RFC 7568).
See also \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP. \fI-3, --sslv3\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. This option overrides \fI-2, --sslv2\fP and \fI-1, --tlsv1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.2\fP.
.IP "--stderr"
Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead. If the file name
is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
See also \fI-v, --verbose\fP and \fI-s, --silent\fP.
.IP "--suppress-connect-headers"
When \fI-p, --proxytunnel\fP is used and a CONNECT request is made don't output proxy
CONNECT response headers. This option is meant to be used with \fI-D, --dump-header\fP or
\fI-i, --include\fP which are used to show protocol headers in the output. It has no
effect on debug options such as \fI-v, --verbose\fP or \fI--trace\fP, or any statistics.
See also \fI-D, --dump-header\fP and \fI-i, --include\fP and \fI-p, --proxytunnel\fP.
.IP "--tcp-fastopen"
Enable use of TCP Fast Open (RFC7413).
Added in 7.49.0.
.IP "--tcp-nodelay"
Turn on the TCP_NODELAY option. See the \fIcurl_easy_setopt(3)\fP man page for
details about this option.
Since 7.50.2, curl sets this option by default and you need to explicitly
switch it off if you don't want it on.
Added in 7.11.2.
.IP "-t, --telnet-option <opt=val>"
Pass options to the telnet protocol. Supported options are:
TTYPE=<term> Sets the terminal type.
XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.
NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.
.IP "--tftp-blksize <value>"
(TFTP) Set TFTP BLKSIZE option (must be >512). This is the block size that curl will
try to use when transferring data to or from a TFTP server. By default 512
bytes will be used.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Added in 7.20.0.
.IP "--tftp-no-options"
(TFTP) Tells curl not to send TFTP options requests.
This option improves interop with some legacy servers that do not acknowledge
or properly implement TFTP options. When this option is used \fI--tftp-blksize\fP is
ignored.
Added in 7.48.0.
.IP "-z, --time-cond <time>"
(HTTP FTP) Request 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 is taken as
a filename and tries to get the modification date (mtime) from <file>
instead. See the \fIcurl_getdate(3)\fP 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.
.IP "--tls-max <VERSION>"
(SSL) VERSION defines maximum supported TLS version. A minimum is defined
by arguments tlsv1.0 or tlsv1.1 or tlsv1.2.
.RS
.IP "default"
Use up to recommended TLS version.
.IP "1.0"
Use up to TLSv1.0.
.IP "1.1"
Use up to TLSv1.1.
.IP "1.2"
Use up to TLSv1.2.
.IP "1.3"
Use up to TLSv1.3.
.RE
See also \fI--tlsv1.0\fP and \fI--tlsv1.1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.2\fP. \fI--tls-max\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. Added in 7.54.0.
.IP "--tlsauthtype <type>"
Set TLS authentication type. Currently, the only supported option is "SRP",
for TLS-SRP (RFC 5054). If \fI--tlsuser\fP and \fI--tlspassword\fP are specified but
\fI--tlsauthtype\fP is not, then this option defaults to "SRP".
Added in 7.21.4.
.IP "--tlspassword"
Set password for use with the TLS authentication method specified with
\fI--tlsauthtype\fP. Requires that \fI--tlsuser\fP also be set.
Added in 7.21.4.
.IP "--tlsuser <name>"
Set username for use with the TLS authentication method specified with
\fI--tlsauthtype\fP. Requires that \fI--tlspassword\fP also is set.
Added in 7.21.4.
.IP "--tlsv1.0"
(TLS) Forces curl to use TLS version 1.0 when connecting to a remote TLS server.
Added in 7.34.0.
.IP "--tlsv1.1"
(TLS) Forces curl to use TLS version 1.1 when connecting to a remote TLS server.
Added in 7.34.0.
.IP "--tlsv1.2"
(TLS) Forces curl to use TLS version 1.2 when connecting to a remote TLS server.
Added in 7.34.0.
.IP "--tlsv1.3"
(TLS) Forces curl to use TLS version 1.3 when connecting to a remote TLS server.
Note that TLS 1.3 is only supported by a subset of TLS backends. At the time
of this writing, they are BoringSSL, NSS, and Secure Transport (on iOS 11 or
later, and macOS 10.13 or later).
Added in 7.52.0.
.IP "-1, --tlsv1"
(SSL) Tells curl to use TLS version 1.x when negotiating with a remote TLS
server. That means TLS version 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2.
See also \fI--http1.1\fP and \fI--http2\fP. \fI-1, --tlsv1\fP requires that the underlying libcurl was built to support TLS. This option overrides \fI--tlsv1.1\fP and \fI--tlsv1.2\fP and \fI--tlsv1.3\fP.
.IP "--tr-encoding"
(HTTP) Request a compressed Transfer-Encoding response using one of the algorithms
curl supports, and uncompress the data while receiving it.
Added in 7.21.6.
.IP "--trace-ascii <file>"
Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
descriptive information, to the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
the output sent to stdout.
This is very similar to \fI--trace\fP, 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.
This option overrides \fI--trace\fP and \fI-v, --verbose\fP.
.IP "--trace-time"
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
Added in 7.14.0.
.IP "--trace <file>"
Enables a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing data, including
descriptive information, to the given output file. Use "-" as filename to have
the output sent to stdout. Use "%" as filename to have the output sent to
stderr.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
This option overrides \fI-v, --verbose\fP and \fI--trace-ascii\fP.
.IP "--unix-socket <path>"
(HTTP) Connect through this Unix domain socket, instead of using the network.
Added in 7.40.0.
.IP "-T, --upload-file <file>"
This transfers the specified local file to the remote URL. If there is no file
part in the specified 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 directory name is the remote
file name to use. That will most likely cause the upload operation to fail. If
this is used on an HTTP(S) server, the PUT command will be used.
Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a given file.
Alternately, the file name "." (a single period) may be specified instead
of "-" to use stdin in non-blocking mode to allow reading server output
while stdin is being uploaded.
You can specify one \fI-T, --upload-file\fP for each URL on the command line. Each
\fI-T, --upload-file\fP + URL pair specifies what to upload and to where. curl also
supports "globbing" of the \fI-T, --upload-file\fP argument, meaning that you can upload
multiple files to a single URL by using the same URL globbing style supported
in the URL, like this:
curl --upload-file "{file1,file2}" http://www.example.com
or even
curl -T "img[1-1000].png" ftp://ftp.example.com/upload/
When uploading to an SMTP server: the uploaded data is assumed to be RFC 5322
formatted. It has to feature the necessary set of headers and mail body
formatted correctly by the user as curl will not transcode nor encode it
further in any way.
.IP "--url <url>"
Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify
URL(s) in a config file.
If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc)
then curl will make a guess based on the host. If the outermost sub-domain
name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol will be
used, otherwise HTTP will be used. Since 7.45.0 guessing can be disabled by
setting a default protocol, see \fI--proto-default\fP for details.
This option may be used any number of times. To control where this URL is
written, use the \fI-o, --output\fP or the \fI-O, --remote-name\fP options.
.IP "-B, --use-ascii"
(FTP LDAP) Enable ASCII transfer. For FTP, this can also be enforced by using a URL that
ends with ";type=A". This option causes data sent to stdout to be in text mode
for win32 systems.
.IP "-A, --user-agent <name>"
(HTTP)
Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server. To encode blanks in
the string, surround the string with single quote marks. This can also be set
with the \fI-H, --header\fP option of course.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-u, --user <user:password>"
Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
\fI-n, --netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.
If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password.
The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon, which makes it
impossible to use a colon in the user name with this option. The password can,
still.
When using Kerberos V5 with a Windows based server you should include the
Windows domain name in the user name, in order for the server to successfully
obtain a Kerberos Ticket. If you don't then the initial authentication
handshake may fail.
When using NTLM, the user name can be specified simply as the user name,
without the domain, if there is a single domain and forest in your setup
for example.
To specify the domain name use either Down-Level Logon Name or UPN (User
Principal Name) formats. For example, EXAMPLE\\user and user@example.com
respectively.
If you use a Windows SSPI-enabled curl binary and perform Kerberos V5,
Negotiate, NTLM or Digest authentication then you can tell curl to select
the user name and password from your environment by specifying a single colon
with this option: "-u :".
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-v, --verbose"
Makes curl verbose during the operation. Useful for debugging and seeing
what's going on "under the hood". A line starting with '>' means "header data"
sent by curl, '<' means "header data" received by curl that is hidden in
normal cases, and a line starting with '*' means additional info provided by
curl.
If you only want HTTP headers in the output, \fI-i, --include\fP might be the option
you're looking for.
If you think this option still doesn't give you enough details, consider using
\fI--trace\fP or \fI--trace-ascii\fP instead.
Use \fI-s, --silent\fP to make curl really quiet.
See also \fI-i, --include\fP. This option overrides \fI--trace\fP and \fI--trace-ascii\fP.
.IP "-V, --version"
Displays information about curl and the libcurl version it uses.
The first line includes the full version of curl, libcurl and other 3rd party
libraries linked with the executable.
The second line (starts with "Protocols:") shows all protocols that libcurl
reports to support.
The third line (starts with "Features:") shows specific features libcurl
reports to offer. Available features include:
.RS
.IP "IPv6"
You can use IPv6 with this.
.IP "krb4"
Krb4 for FTP is supported.
.IP "SSL"
SSL versions of various protocols are supported, such as HTTPS, FTPS, POP3S
and so on.
.IP "libz"
Automatic decompression of compressed files over HTTP is supported.
.IP "NTLM"
NTLM authentication is supported.
.IP "Debug"
This curl uses a libcurl built with Debug. This enables more error-tracking
and memory debugging etc. For curl-developers only!
.IP "AsynchDNS"
This curl uses asynchronous name resolves. Asynchronous name resolves can be
done using either the c-ares or the threaded resolver backends.
.IP "SPNEGO"
SPNEGO authentication is supported.
.IP "Largefile"
This curl supports transfers of large files, files larger than 2GB.
.IP "IDN"
This curl supports IDN - international domain names.
.IP "GSS-API"
GSS-API is supported.
.IP "SSPI"
SSPI is supported.
.IP "TLS-SRP"
SRP (Secure Remote Password) authentication is supported for TLS.
.IP "HTTP2"
HTTP/2 support has been built-in.
.IP "UnixSockets"
Unix sockets support is provided.
.IP "HTTPS-proxy"
This curl is built to support HTTPS proxy.
.IP "Metalink"
This curl supports Metalink (both version 3 and 4 (RFC 5854)), which
describes mirrors and hashes. curl will use mirrors for failover if
there are errors (such as the file or server not being available).
.IP "PSL"
PSL is short for Public Suffix List and means that this curl has been built
with knowledge about "public suffixes".
.RE
.IP "-w, --write-out <format>"
Make curl display information on stdout after a completed transfer. The format
is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of
variables. The format can be specified as a literal "string", or you can have
curl read the format from a file with "@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 specified as
%{variable_name} and to output a normal % you just write them as %%. You can
output a newline by using \\n, a carriage return with \\r and a tab space with
\\t.
.B NOTE:
The %-symbol is a special symbol in the win32-environment, where all
occurrences of % must be doubled when using this option.
The variables available are:
.RS
.TP 15
.B content_type
The Content-Type of the requested document, if there was any.
.TP
.B filename_effective
The ultimate filename that curl writes out to. This is only meaningful if curl
is told to write to a file with the \fI-O, --remote-name\fP or \fI-o, --output\fP
option. It's most useful in combination with the \fI-J, --remote-header-name\fP
option. (Added in 7.26.0)
.TP
.B ftp_entry_path
The initial path curl ended up in when logging on to the remote FTP
server. (Added in 7.15.4)
.TP
.B http_code
The numerical response code that was found in the last retrieved HTTP(S) or
FTP(s) transfer. In 7.18.2 the alias \fBresponse_code\fP was added to show the
same info.
.TP
.B http_connect
The numerical code that was found in the last response (from a proxy) to a
curl CONNECT request. (Added in 7.12.4)
.TP
.B http_version
The http version that was effectively used. (Added in 7.50.0)
.TP
.B local_ip
The IP address of the local end of the most recently done connection - can be
either IPv4 or IPv6 (Added in 7.29.0)
.TP
.B local_port
The local port number of the most recently done connection (Added in 7.29.0)
.TP
.B num_connects
Number of new connects made in the recent transfer. (Added in 7.12.3)
.TP
.B num_redirects
Number of redirects that were followed in the request. (Added in 7.12.3)
.TP
.B proxy_ssl_verify_result
The result of the HTTPS proxy's SSL peer certificate verification that was
requested. 0 means the verification was successful. (Added in 7.52.0)
.TP
.B redirect_url
When an HTTP request was made without \fI-L, --location\fP to follow redirects (or when
--max-redir is met), this variable will show the actual URL a redirect
\fIwould\fP have gone to. (Added in 7.18.2)
.TP
.B remote_ip
The remote IP address of the most recently done connection - can be either
IPv4 or IPv6 (Added in 7.29.0)
.TP
.B remote_port
The remote port number of the most recently done connection (Added in 7.29.0)
.TP
.B scheme
The URL scheme (sometimes called protocol) that was effectively used (Added in 7.52.0)
.TP
.B size_download
The total amount of bytes that were downloaded.
.TP
.B size_header
The total amount of bytes of the downloaded headers.
.TP
.B size_request
The total amount of bytes that were sent in the HTTP request.
.TP
.B size_upload
The total amount of bytes that were uploaded.
.TP
.B speed_download
The average download speed that curl measured for the complete download. Bytes
per second.
.TP
.B speed_upload
The average upload speed that curl measured for the complete upload. Bytes per
second.
.TP
.B ssl_verify_result
The result of the SSL peer certificate verification that was requested. 0
means the verification was successful. (Added in 7.19.0)
.TP
.B time_appconnect
The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the SSL/SSH/etc
connect/handshake to the remote host was completed. (Added in 7.19.0)
.TP
.B time_connect
The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the TCP connect to the
remote host (or proxy) was completed.
.TP
.B time_namelookup
The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the name resolving was
completed.
.TP
.B time_pretransfer
The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the file transfer was just
about to begin. This includes all pre-transfer commands and negotiations that
are specific to the particular protocol(s) involved.
.TP
.B time_redirect
The time, in seconds, it took for all redirection steps including name lookup,
connect, pretransfer and transfer before the final transaction was
started. time_redirect shows the complete execution time for multiple
redirections. (Added in 7.12.3)
.TP
.B time_starttransfer
The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the first byte was just
about to be transferred. This includes time_pretransfer and also the time the
server needed to calculate the result.
.TP
.B time_total
The total time, in seconds, that the full operation lasted.
.TP
.B url_effective
The URL that was fetched last. This is most meaningful if you've told curl
to follow location: headers.
.RE
.IP
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--xattr"
When saving output to a file, this option tells curl to store certain file
metadata in extended file attributes. Currently, the URL is stored in the
xdg.origin.url attribute and, for HTTP, the content type is stored in
the mime_type attribute. If the file system does not support extended
attributes, a warning is issued.
.SH FILES
.I ~/.curlrc
.RS
Default config file, see \fI-K, --config\fP for details.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case. The
lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it is only
available in lower case.
Using an environment variable to set the proxy has the same effect as using
the \fI-x, --proxy\fP option.
.IP "http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
Sets the proxy server to use for HTTP.
.IP "HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
Sets the proxy server to use for HTTPS.
.IP "[url-protocol]_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
Sets the proxy server to use for [url-protocol], where the protocol is a
protocol that curl supports and as specified in a URL. FTP, FTPS, POP3, IMAP,
SMTP, LDAP etc.
.IP "ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
Sets the proxy server to use if no protocol-specific proxy is set.
.IP "NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>"
list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy. If set to a asterisk
\&'*' only, it matches all hosts.
Since 7.53.0, this environment variable disable the proxy even if specify
\fI-x, --proxy\fP option. That is
.B NO_PROXY=direct.example.com curl -x http://proxy.example.com
.B http://direct.example.com
accesses the target URL directly, and
.B NO_PROXY=direct.example.com curl -x http://proxy.example.com
.B http://somewhere.example.com
accesses the target URL through proxy.
.SH "PROXY PROTOCOL PREFIXES"
Since curl version 7.21.7, the proxy string may be specified with a
protocol:// prefix to specify alternative proxy protocols.
If no protocol is specified in the proxy string or if the string doesn't match
a supported one, the proxy will be treated as an HTTP proxy.
The supported proxy protocol prefixes are as follows:
.IP "http://"
Makes it use it as a HTTP proxy. The default if no scheme prefix is used.
.IP "https://"
Makes it treated as a \fBHTTPS\fP proxy.
.IP "socks4://"
Makes it the equivalent of \fI--socks4\fP
.IP "socks4a://"
Makes it the equivalent of \fI--socks4a\fP
.IP "socks5://"
Makes it the equivalent of \fI--socks5\fP
.IP "socks5h://"
Makes it the equivalent of \fI--socks5-hostname\fP
.SH EXIT CODES
There are a bunch of different error codes and their corresponding error
messages that may appear during bad conditions. At the time of this writing,
the exit codes are:
.IP 1
Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no support for this protocol.
.IP 2
Failed to initialize.
.IP 3
URL malformed. The syntax was not correct.
.IP 4
A feature or option that was needed to perform the desired request was not
enabled or was explicitly disabled at build-time. To make curl able to do
this, you probably need another build of libcurl!
.IP 5
Couldn't resolve proxy. The given proxy host could not be resolved.
.IP 6
Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was not resolved.
.IP 7
Failed to connect to host.
.IP 8
Weird server reply. The server sent data curl couldn't parse.
.IP 9
FTP access denied. The server denied login or denied access to the particular
resource or directory you wanted to reach. Most often you tried to change to a
directory that doesn't exist on the server.
.IP 10
FTP accept failed. While waiting for the server to connect back when an active
FTP session is used, an error code was sent over the control connection or
similar.
.IP 11
FTP weird PASS reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the PASS request.
.IP 12
During an active FTP session while waiting for the server to connect back to
curl, the timeout expired.
.IP 13
FTP weird PASV reply, Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the PASV request.
.IP 14
FTP weird 227 format. Curl couldn't parse the 227-line the server sent.
.IP 15
FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we got in the 227-line.
.IP 16
HTTP/2 error. A problem was detected in the HTTP2 framing layer. This is
somewhat generic and can be one out of several problems, see the error message
for details.
.IP 17
FTP couldn't set binary. Couldn't change transfer method to binary.
.IP 18
Partial file. Only a part of the file was transferred.
.IP 19
FTP couldn't download/access the given file, the RETR (or similar) command
failed.
.IP 21
FTP quote error. A quote command returned error from the server.
.IP 22
HTTP page not retrieved. The requested url was not found or returned another
error with the HTTP error code being 400 or above. This return code only
appears if \fI-f, --fail\fP is used.
.IP 23
Write error. Curl couldn't write data to a local filesystem or similar.
.IP 25
FTP couldn't STOR file. The server denied the STOR operation, used for FTP
uploading.
.IP 26
Read error. Various reading problems.
.IP 27
Out of memory. A memory allocation request failed.
.IP 28
Operation timeout. The specified time-out period was reached according to the
conditions.
.IP 30
FTP PORT failed. The PORT command failed. Not all FTP servers support the PORT
command, try doing a transfer using PASV instead!
.IP 31
FTP couldn't use REST. The REST command failed. This command is used for
resumed FTP transfers.
.IP 33
HTTP range error. The range "command" didn't work.
.IP 34
HTTP post error. Internal post-request generation error.
.IP 35
SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.
.IP 36
Bad download resume. Couldn't continue an earlier aborted download.
.IP 37
FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file. Permissions?
.IP 38
LDAP cannot bind. LDAP bind operation failed.
.IP 39
LDAP search failed.
.IP 41
Function not found. A required LDAP function was not found.
.IP 42
Aborted by callback. An application told curl to abort the operation.
.IP 43
Internal error. A function was called with a bad parameter.
.IP 45
Interface error. A specified outgoing interface could not be used.
.IP 47
Too many redirects. When following redirects, curl hit the maximum amount.
.IP 48
Unknown option specified to libcurl. This indicates that you passed a weird
option to curl that was passed on to libcurl and rejected. Read up in the
manual!
.IP 49
Malformed telnet option.
.IP 51
The peer's SSL certificate or SSH MD5 fingerprint was not OK.
.IP 52
The server didn't reply anything, which here is considered an error.
.IP 53
SSL crypto engine not found.
.IP 54
Cannot set SSL crypto engine as default.
.IP 55
Failed sending network data.
.IP 56
Failure in receiving network data.
.IP 58
Problem with the local certificate.
.IP 59
Couldn't use specified SSL cipher.
.IP 60
Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates.
.IP 61
Unrecognized transfer encoding.
.IP 62
Invalid LDAP URL.
.IP 63
Maximum file size exceeded.
.IP 64
Requested FTP SSL level failed.
.IP 65
Sending the data requires a rewind that failed.
.IP 66
Failed to initialise SSL Engine.
.IP 67
The user name, password, or similar was not accepted and curl failed to log in.
.IP 68
File not found on TFTP server.
.IP 69
Permission problem on TFTP server.
.IP 70
Out of disk space on TFTP server.
.IP 71
Illegal TFTP operation.
.IP 72
Unknown TFTP transfer ID.
.IP 73
File already exists (TFTP).
.IP 74
No such user (TFTP).
.IP 75
Character conversion failed.
.IP 76
Character conversion functions required.
.IP 77
Problem with reading the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?).
.IP 78
The resource referenced in the URL does not exist.
.IP 79
An unspecified error occurred during the SSH session.
.IP 80
Failed to shut down the SSL connection.
.IP 82
Could not load CRL file, missing or wrong format (added in 7.19.0).
.IP 83
Issuer check failed (added in 7.19.0).
.IP 84
The FTP PRET command failed
.IP 85
RTSP: mismatch of CSeq numbers
.IP 86
RTSP: mismatch of Session Identifiers
.IP 87
unable to parse FTP file list
.IP 88
FTP chunk callback reported error
.IP 89
No connection available, the session will be queued
.IP 90
SSL public key does not matched pinned public key
.IP 91
Invalid SSL certificate status.
.IP 92
Stream error in HTTP/2 framing layer.
.IP XX
More error codes will appear here in future releases. The existing ones
are meant to never change.
.SH AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
Daniel Stenberg is the main author, but the whole list of contributors is
found in the separate THANKS file.
.SH WWW
https://curl.haxx.se
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ftp (1),
.BR wget (1)