NAME

     curl - transfer a URL


SYNOPSIS

     curl [options] [URL...]


DESCRIPTION

     curl  is  a client to get documents/files from or send docu­
     ments to a server, using  any  of  the  supported  protocols
     (HTTP,  HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE). The
     command is designed to work without user interaction or  any
     kind of interactivity.

     curl  offers  a busload of useful tricks like proxy support,
     user authentication, ftp upload,  HTTP  post,  SSL  (https:)
     connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more.


URL

     The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You'll find a detailed
     description in RFC 2396.

     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.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
      ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading
     zeros)
      ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt

     It  is possible to specify up to 9 sets or series for a URL,
     but no nesting is supported at the moment:

      http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol­
     ume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html

     You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They
     will be fetched in a  sequential  manner  in  the  specified
     order.

     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.



OPTIONS

     -a/--append
          (FTP) When used in a ftp upload, this will tell curl to
          append to the target file instead of overwriting it. If
          the file doesn't exist, it will be created.

          If this option is used twice, the second one will  dis­
          able append mode again.

     -A/--user-agent <agent string>
          (HTTP)  Specify  the  User-Agent  string to send to the
          HTTP server. Some badly done CGIs fail if its  not  set
          to "Mozilla/4.0".  To encode blanks in the string, sur­
          round the string with single  quote  marks.   This  can
          also be set with the -H/--header flag of course.

          If this option is set more than once, the last one will
          be the one that's used.

     -b/--cookie <name=data>
          (HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. 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 '=' letter is used in the line, it is treated as
          a filename to use  to  read  previously  stored  cookie
          lines  from,  which  should  be used in this session if
          they  match.  Using  this  method  also  activates  the
          "cookie  parser"  which  will make curl record incoming
          cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this in
          combination  with  the  -L/--location  option. The file
          format of the file to read cookies from should be plain
          HTTP  headers  or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file for­
          mat.

          NOTE that the file specified with -b/--cookie  is  only
          used  as  input. No cookies will be stored in the file.
          To store cookies, save the HTTP headers to a file using
          -D/--dump-header!

          If this option is set more than once, the last one will
          be the one that's used.

     -B/--use-ascii
          Use ASCII transfer when getting an  FTP  file  or  LDAP
          info.  For  FTP,  this can also be enforced by using an
          URL that ends with ";type=A". This option  causes  data
          sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32 systems.

          If  this option is used twice, the second one will dis­
          able ASCII usage.

     --ciphers <list of ciphers>
          (SSL) Specifies which ciphers to use in the connection.
          The  list  of ciphers must be using valid ciphers. Read
          up  on  SSL  cipher   list   details   on   this   URL:
          http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html   (Option
          added in curl 7.9)

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          override the others.

     --connect-timeout <seconds>
          Maximum  time  in seconds that you allow the connection
          to the server to take.  This only limits the connection
          phase,  once  curl  has  connected this option is of no
          more use. See also the --max-time option.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -c/--cookie-jar <file name>
          Specify  to which file you want curl to write all cook­
          ies after a completed operation. Curl writes all  cook­
          ies  previously  read  from a specified file as well as
          all cookies received from remote server(s). If no cook­
          ies  are  known, no file 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 cook­
          ies will be written to stdout. (Option  added  in  curl
          7.9)

          If this option is used several times, the last specfied
          file name will be used.

     -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 counted from the beginning of  the
          source file before it is transfered 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.

     --crlf
          (FTP) Convert LF to CRLF  in  upload.  Useful  for  MVS
          (OS/390).

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable crlf converting.

     -d/--data <data>
          (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a  POST  request  to
          the HTTP server, in a way that can emulate as if a user
          has filled in a HTML form and pressed the  submit  but­
          ton.  Note  that  the data is sent exactly as specified
          with no extra processing (with all newlines  cut  off).
          The  data  is  expected  to be "url-encoded". This will
          cause curl to pass the data to  the  server  using  the
          content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare
          to -F. If more than one -d/--data option is used on the
          same  command  line,  the data pieces specified will be
          merged together with a separating &-letter. 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.   The  con­
          tents of the file must already be url-encoded. Multiple
          files can also be specified. Posting data from  a  file
          named  'foobar'  would  thus be done with "--data @foo­
          bar".

          To post data purely binary, you should instead use  the
          --data-binary option.

          -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.

          If  this option is used several times, the ones follow­
          ing the first will append data.

     --data-ascii <data>
          (HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option.

          If this option is used several times, the ones  follow­
          ing the first will append data.

     --data-binary <data>
          (HTTP)  This  posts data in a similar manner as --data-
          ascii does, although when using this option the  entire
          context  of  the posted data is kept as-is. If you want
          to post a binary file without the  strip-newlines  fea­
          ture of the --data-ascii option, this is for you.

          If  this option is used several times, the ones follow­
          ing the first will append data.

     --disable-epsv
          (FTP) Tell curl to disable the use of the EPSV  command
          when  doing  passive  FTP downloads. Curl will normally
          always first attempt to use EPSV before PASV, but  with
          this option, it will not try using EPSV.

          If  this  option is used several times, each occurrence
          will toggle this on/off.

     -D/--dump-header <file>
          Write the protocol headers to the specified file.

          This option is handy to use when you want to store  the
          cookies  that  a  HTTP  site  sends to you. The cookies
          could then be read in a second curl invoke by using the
          -b/--cookie option!

          When  used  on  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.

     -e/--referer <URL>
          (HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP
          server. This can also be set with the -H/--header  flag
          of course.  When used with -L/--location you can append
          ";auto" to the referer 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 referer.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     --environment
          (RISC OS ONLY) Sets a range of  environment  variables,
          using the names the -w option supports, to easier allow
          extraction of useful information after having run curl.

          If  this  option is used several times, each occurrence
          will toggle this on/off.

     --egd-file <file>
          (HTTPS) Specify the path name to the Entropy  Gathering
          Daemon  socket.  The  socket is used to seed the random
          engine for SSL connections. See also the  --random-file
          option.

     -E/--cert <certificate[:password]>
          (HTTPS)  Tells  curl  to  use the specified certificate
          file when getting a file with  HTTPS.  The  certificate
          must  be in PEM format.  If the optional password isn't
          specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note
          that  this  certificate is the private key and the pri­
          vate certificate concatenated!

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     --cacert <CA certificate>
          (HTTPS)  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 for­
          mat.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     --capath <CA certificate directory>
          (HTTPS)  Tells  curl  to  use the specified certificate
          directory to verify the peer. The certificates must  be
          in  PEM  format,  and the directory must have been pro­
          cessed  using  the  c_rehash  utility   supplied   with
          openssl.  Certificate  directories  are  not  supported
          under Windows (because c_rehash uses symbolink links to
          create  them).  Using  --capath  can allow curl to make
          https connections  much  more  efficiently  than  using
          --cacert if the --cacert file contains many CA certifi­
          cates.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -f/--fail
          (HTTP)  Fail  silently  (no  output  at  all) on server
          errors. This is mostly done like this to better  enable
          scripts  etc  to  better  deal with failed attempts. In
          normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a doc­
          ument,  it  returns  a  HTML document stating so (which
          often also describes why and more). This flag will pre­
          vent  curl  from  outputting  that  and  fail  silently
          instead.

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          disable silent failure.

     -F/--form <name=content>
          (HTTP) 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 RFC1867. This enables uploading of  binary
          files etc. To force the 'content' part to be 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
          letter <. 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  con­
          tents for that text field from a file.

          Example,  to  send  your  password  file to the server,
          where 'password' is the name of the form-field to which
          /etc/passwd will be the input:

          curl -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com

          To read the file's content from stdin insted of a file,
          use - where the file name should've been. This goes for
          both @ and < constructs.

          This option can be used multiple times.

     -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.

     -G/--get
          When used, this option will  make  all  data  specified
          with  -d/--data  or  --data-binary to be used in a HTTP
          GET request instead of the POST request that  otherwise
          would  be  used.  The  data will be appended to the URL
          with a '?'  separator. (Option added in curl 7.9)

          If used in combination with  -I,  the  POST  data  will
          instead be appended to the URL with a HEAD request.

          If used multiple times, nothing special happens.

     -h/--help
          Usage help.

     -H/--header <header>
          (HTTP) Extra header to use when getting a web page. 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 exter­
          nally  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 inter­
          nally set headers without knowing perfectly  well  what
          you're  doing.  Replacing  an  internal header with one
          without content on the right side  of  the  colon  will
          prevent that header from appearing.

          This   option   can   be   used   multiple   times   to
          add/replace/remove multiple headers.

     -i/--include
          (HTTP) Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-
          header  includes  things  like server-name, date of the
          document, HTTP-version and more...

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          disable header include.

     --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 http://www.netscape.com/

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -I/--head
          (HTTP/FTP) Fetch  the  HTTP-header  only!  HTTP-servers
          feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing
          but the header of a document. When used on a FTP  file,
          curl displays the file size only.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable header only.

     -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 basicly have the same effect as  if
          a  new session is started. Typical browsers always dis­
          card session cookies when they're closed  down.  (Added
          in 7.9.7)

          If  this  option is used several times, each occurrence
          will toggle this on/off.

     -k/--insecure
          (SSL) This option explicitly  allows  curl  to  perform
          "insecure" SSL connections and transfers. Starting with
          curl 7.10, all SSL connections will be attempted to  be
          made   secure   by  using  the  CA  certificate  bundle
          installed by default. This makes all  connections  con­
          sidered  "insecure"  to  fail  unless  -k/--insecure is
          used.

          If this option is used  twice,  the  second  time  will
          again disable it.

     --krb4 <level>
          (FTP)  Enable  kerberos4  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.

     -K/--config <config file>
          Specify which config file to read curl arguments  from.
          The  config  file  is a text file in which command line
          arguments can be written which then will be used as  if
          they  were  written on the actual command line. Options
          and their parameters must be specified on the same con­
          fig  file  line.  If  the parameter is to contain white
          spaces, the parameter must be inclosed  within  quotes.
          If  the  first column of a config line is a '#' charac­
          ter, the rest of the line will be treated as a comment.

          Specify  the filename 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 --url option,
          and not by simply writing the URL on its own line.  So,
          it could look similar to this:

          url = "http://curl.haxx.se/docs/"

          This option can be used multiple times.

     --limit-rate <speed>
          Specify the maximum transfer rate you want curl to use.
          This feature is useful if you have a limited  pipe  and
          you'd prefer you have your transfer not use your entire
          bandwidth.

          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.

          This option was introduced in curl 7.10.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -l/--list-only
          (FTP) When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces
          a name-only view.  Especially useful  if  you  want  to
          machine-parse  the  contents  of an FTP directory since
          the normal directory view doesn't use a  standard  look
          or format.

          This  option  causes  an  FTP  NLST command to be sent.
          Some FTP servers list only files in their  response  to
          NLST;  they  do not include subdirectories and symbolic
          links.

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          disable list only.

     -L/--location
          (HTTP/HTTPS)  If  the server reports that the requested
          page has  a  different  location  (indicated  with  the
          header  line Location:) this flag will let curl attempt
          to reattempt the get on the new place. If used together
          with -i or -I, headers from all requested pages will be
          shown. If this flag is used when making  a  HTTP  POST,
          curl will automatically switch to GET after the initial
          POST has been done.

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          disable location following.

     -m/--max-time <seconds>
          Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole opera­
          tion to take.  This is useful for preventing your batch
          jobs  from  hanging  for  hours due to slow networks or
          links going down.  This doesn't  work  fully  in  win32
          systems.  See also the --connect-timeout option.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -M/--manual
          Manual. Display the huge help text.

     -n/--netrc
          Makes curl scan the .netrc  file  in  the  user's  home
          directory  for  login  name and password. This is typi­
          cally used for ftp on unix. If  used  with  http,  curl
          will enable user authentication. See netrc(4) or ftp(1)
          for details on the file format. Curl will not  complain
          if  that  file  hasn't the right permissions (it should
          not be world nor group readable). The environment vari­
          able "HOME" is used to find the home directory.

          A  quick  and  very  simple  example  of how to setup a
          .netrc  to  allow  curl   to   ftp   to   the   machine
          host.domain.com  with  user  name 'myself' and password
          'secret' should look similar to:

          machine host.domain.com login myself password secret

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          disable netrc usage.

     -N/--no-buffer
          Disables  the buffering of the output stream. In normal
          work situations, curl will use a standard buffered out­
          put  stream that will have the effect that it will out­
          put the data in chunks, not  necessarily  exactly  when
          the  data arrives.  Using this option will disable that
          buffering.

          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again
          switch on buffering.

     -o/--output <file>
          Write  output  to  <file> instead of stdout. If you are
          using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you can use
          '#'  followed by a number in the <file> specifier. That
          variable will be replaced with the current  string  for
          the URL being fetched. Like in:

            curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"

          or use several variables like:

            curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"

          You  may use this option as many times as you have num­
          ber of URLs.

     -O/--remote-name
          Write output to a local file named like the remote file
          we get. (Only the file part of the remote file is used,
          the path is cut off.)

          You may use this option as many times as you have  num­
          ber of URLs.

     -p/--proxytunnel
          When an HTTP proxy is used, this option will cause non-
          HTTP protocols to attempt to tunnel through  the  proxy
          instead  of merely using it to do HTTP-like operations.
          The tunnel approach is made with the HTTP proxy CONNECT
          request  and requires that the proxy allows direct con­
          nect to the remote port number  curl  wants  to  tunnel
          through to.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable proxy tunnel.

     -P/--ftpport <address>
          (FTP) Reverses the initiator/listener roles  when  con­
          necting  with  ftp. This switch makes Curl use the PORT
          command instead of PASV. In practice,  PORT  tells  the
          server to connect to the client's specified address and
          port, while PASV asks the server for an ip address  and
          port to connect to. <address> should be one of:

          interface   i.e  "eth0" to specify which interface's IP
                      address you want to use  (Unix only)

          IP address  i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP num­
                      ber

          host name   i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine

          -           (any  single-letter string) to make it pick
                      the machine's default

     If this option is used several times, the last one  will  be
     used.

     -q   If used as the first parameter on the command line, the
          $HOME/.curlrc file will not be read and used as a  con­
          fig file.

     -Q/--quote <comand>
          (FTP)  Send  an  arbitrary  command  to  the remote FTP
          server, by using the QUOTE command of the  server.  Not
          all  servers support this command, and the set of QUOTE
          commands are server specific! Quote commands  are  sent
          BEFORE  the  transfer is taking place. To make commands
          take place after a  successful  transfer,  prefix  them
          with a dash '-'. You may specify any amount of commands
          to be run before and after the transfer. If the  server
          returns  failure  for  one  of the commands, the entire
          operation will be aborted.

          This option can be used multiple times.

     --random-file <file>
          (HTTPS) Specify the path name to file  containing  what
          will  be considered as random data. The data is used to
          seed the random engine for SSL connections.   See  also
          the --edg-file option.

     -r/--range <range>
          (HTTP/FTP)  Retrieve  a byte range (i.e a partial docu­
          ment) from a HTTP/1.1 or  FTP  server.  Ranges  can  be
          specified in a number of ways.
          0-499     specifies the first 500 bytes

          500-999   specifies the second 500 bytes

          -500      specifies the last 500 bytes

          9500      specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and for­
                    ward

          0-0,-1    specifies the first and last byte only(*)(H)

          500-700,600-799
                    specifies 300 bytes from offset 500(H)

          100-199,500-599
                    specifies two separate 100 bytes ranges(*)(H)

     (*)  =  NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a
     multipart response!

     You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers  do  not
     have this feature enabled, so that when you attempt to get a
     range, you'll instead get the whole document.

     FTP range downloads only support the simple  syntax  'start-
     stop'  (optionally  with  one  of  the  numbers omitted). It
     depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.

     If this option is used several times, the last one  will  be
     used.

     -R/--remote-time
          When used, this will make libcurl attempt to figure out
          the timestamp of the remote file, and if that is avail­
          able make the local file get that same timestamp.

          If  this option is used twice, the second time disables
          this again.

     -s/--silent
          Silent mode. Don't show progress meter  or  error  mes­
          sages.  Makes Curl mute.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable mute.

     -S/--show-error
          When used with -s it makes curl show error  message  if
          it fails.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable show error.

     --stderr <file>
          Redirect all writes to stderr  to  the  specified  file
          instead. If the file name is a plain '-', it is instead
          written to stdout. This option has no point when you're
          using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -t/--telnet-option <OPT=val>
          Pass options to the telnet protocol. Supported  options
          are:

          TTYPE=<term> Sets the terminal type.

          XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.

          NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.

     -T/--upload-file <file>
          This  transfers  the specified local file to the remote
          URL. If there is no file part  in  the  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 a http(s) server,
          the PUT command will be used.

          Use  the  file  name  "-"  (a single dash) to use stdin
          instead of a given file.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     --trace <file>
          Enables  a full trace dump of all incoming and outgoing
          data, including descriptive information, to  the  given
          output  file.  Use  "-"  as filename to have the output
          sent to stdout.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used. (Added in curl 7.9.7)

     --trace-ascii <file>
          Enables  a full trace dump of all incoming and 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 --trace, but leaves out the hex
          part  and  only  shows  the  ASCII part of the dump. It
          makes smaller output that might be easier to  read  for
          untrained humans.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used. (Added in curl 7.9.7)

     -u/--user <user:password>
          Specify user and password to  use  when  fetching.  See
          README.curl  for  detailed examples of how to use this.
          If no password is  specified,  curl  will  ask  for  it
          interactively.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -U/--proxy-user <user:password>
          Specify user and password to use for Proxy  authentica­
          tion. If no password is specified, curl will ask for it
          interactively.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     --url <URL>
          Specify  a  URL  to  fetch. This option is mostly handy
          when you want to specify URL(s) in a config file.

          This option may be used any number of times. To control
          where  this  URL  is  written,  use  the  -o  or the -O
          options.

     -v/--verbose
          Makes  the  fetching  more  verbose/talkative.   Mostly
          usable  for  debugging.  Lines  starting with '>' means
          data sent by curl, '<' means data received by curl that
          is  hidden  in normal cases and lines starting with '*'
          means additional info provided by curl.

          Note that if you want to see HTTP headers in  the  out­
          put, -i/--include might be option you're looking for.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable verbose.

     -V/--version
          Displays the full version of curl,  libcurl  and  other
          3rd party libraries linked with the executable.

     -w/--write-out <format>
          Defines  what to display after a completed and success­
          ful operation. The format is a string that may  contain
          plain  text  mixed  with  any  number of variables. The
          string can be specified as "string", to get read from a
          particular  file you specify it "@filename" and to tell
          curl to read the format from stdin you write "@-".

          The variables present in the output format will be sub­
          stituted  by the value or text that curl thinks fit, as
          described  below.  All  variables  are  specified  like
          %{variable_name}  and  to  output  a  normal % you just
          write them like %%. You can output a newline  by  using
          \n,  a carriage return with \r and a tab space with \t.

          NOTE:  The  %-letter  is  a  special  letter   in   the
          win32-environment,  where  all occurrences of % must be
          doubled when using this option.

          Available variables are at this point:

          url_effective  The URL that was fetched last.  This  is
                         mostly meaningful if you've told curl to
                         follow location: headers.

          http_code      The numerical code that was found in the
                         last retrieved HTTP(S) page.

          time_total     The  total  time,  in  seconds, that the
                         full operation lasted. The time will  be
                         displayed with millisecond resolution.

          time_namelookup
                         The  time,  in seconds, it took from the
                         start until the name resolving was  com­
                         pleted.

          time_connect   The  time,  in seconds, it took from the
                         start until the connect  to  the  remote
                         host (or proxy) was completed.

          time_pretransfer
                         The  time,  in seconds, it took from the
                         start until the file  transfer  is  just
                         about  to  begin. This includes all pre-
                         transfer commands and negotiations  that
                         are  specific  to  the particular proto­
                         col(s) involved.

          time_starttransfer
                         The time, in seconds, it took  from  the
                         start until the first byte is just about
                         to   be   transfered.   This    includes
                         time_pretransfer  and  also the time the
                         server needs to calculate the result.

          size_download  The total  amount  of  bytes  that  were
                         downloaded.

          size_upload    The  total  amount  of  bytes  that were
                         uploaded.

          size_header    The total amount of bytes of  the  down­
                         loaded headers.

          size_request   The total amount of bytes that were sent
                         in the HTTP request.

          speed_download The average  download  speed  that  curl
                         measured for the complete download.

          speed_upload   The  average upload speed that curl mea­
                         sured for the complete upload.

          content_type   The Content-Type of the requested  docu­
                         ment, if there was any. (Added in 7.9.5)

     If this option is used several times, the last one  will  be
     used.

     -x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>
          Use  specified  HTTP  proxy.  If the port number is not
          specified, it is assumed at port 1080.

          This option overrides  existing  environment  variables
          that sets proxy to use. If there's an environment vari­
          able setting a proxy, you can set proxy to "" to  over­
          ride it.

          Note that all operations that are performed over a HTTP
          proxy will transparantly be converted to HTTP. It means
          that  certain protocol specific operations might not be
          available. This is not  the  case  if  you  can  tunnel
          through  the  proxy,  as done with the -p/--proxytunnel
          option.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -X/--request <command>
          (HTTP)  Specifies a custom request to use when communi­
          cating with the HTTP  server.   The  specified  request
          will be used instead of the standard GET. Read the HTTP
          1.1 specification for details and explanations.

          (FTP) Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead  of
          LIST when doing file lists with ftp.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -y/--speed-time <time>
          If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per sec­
          ond  during  a  speed-time  period,  the  download gets
          aborted. If speed-time is used, the default speed-limit
          will be 1 unless set with -y.

          This option controls transfers and thus will not affect
          slow connects etc. If this is a concern  for  you,  try
          the --connect-timeout option.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -Y/--speed-limit <speed>
          If a download is slower than this given speed, in bytes
          per  second,  for  speed-time  seconds it gets aborted.
          speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if not set.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -z/--time-cond <date expression>
          (HTTP)  Request  to  get  a file that has been modified
          later than the given time and date,  or  one  that  has
          been modified before that time. The date expression can
          be all sorts of date strings or if it doesn't match any
          internal  ones,  it  tries to get the time from a given
          file name instead! See the  GNU  date(1)  or  curl_get­
          date(3) man pages for date expression details.

          Start  the  date  expression with a dash (-) to make it
          request for a document that is  older  than  the  given
          date/time, default is a document that is newer than the
          specified date/time.

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -Z/--max-redirs <num>
          Set  maximum  number of redirection-followings allowed.
          If -L/--location is used, this option can  be  used  to
          prevent curl from following redirections "in absurdum".

          If this option is used several times, the last one will
          be used.

     -3/--sslv3
          (HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiat­
          ing with a remote SSL server.

     -2/--sslv2
          (HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when negotiat­
          ing with a remote SSL server.

     -0/--http1.0
          (HTTP) Forces curl to issue its requests using HTTP 1.0
          instead of using its internally preferred: HTTP 1.1.

     -#/--progress-bar
          Make curl display progress information  as  a  progress
          bar instead of the default statistics.

          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again
          disable the progress bar.


FILES

     ~/.curlrc
          Default config file.



ENVIRONMENT

     http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]
          Sets proxy server to use for HTTP.

     HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
          Sets proxy server to use for HTTPS.

     FTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
          Sets proxy server to use for FTP.

     GOPHER_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
          Sets proxy server to use for GOPHER.

     ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
          Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific  proxy
          is set.

     NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>
          list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy.
          If set to a asterisk


EXIT CODES

     There exists a bunch of different error codes and their cor­
     responding  error messages that may appear during bad condi­
     tions. At the time of this writing, the exit codes are:

     1    Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no support
          for this protocol.

     2    Failed to initialize.

     3    URL malformat. The syntax was not correct.
     4    URL  user malformatted. The user-part of the URL syntax
          was not correct.

     5    Couldn't resolve proxy. The given proxy host could  not
          be resolved.

     6    Couldn't  resolve  host.  The given remote host was not
          resolved.

     7    Failed to connect to host.

     8    FTP weird server  reply.  The  server  sent  data  curl
          couldn't parse.

     9    FTP access denied. The server denied login.

     10   FTP  user/password  incorrect.  Either one or both were
          not accepted by the server.

     11   FTP weird PASS reply. Curl  couldn't  parse  the  reply
          sent to the PASS request.

     12   FTP  weird  USER  reply.  Curl couldn't parse the reply
          sent to the USER request.

     13   FTP weird PASV reply, Curl  couldn't  parse  the  reply
          sent to the PASV request.

     14   FTP  weird 227 format. Curl couldn't parse the 227-line
          the server sent.

     15   FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we got
          in the 227-line.

     16   FTP  can't  reconnect.  Couldn't connect to the host we
          got in the 227-line.

     17   FTP  couldn't  set  binary.  Couldn't  change  transfer
          method to binary.

     18   Partial file. Only a part of the file was transfered.

     19   FTP couldn't RETR file. The RETR command failed.

     20   FTP  write  error. The transfer was reported bad by the
          server.

     21   FTP quote error. A quote command  returned  error  from
          the server.

     22   HTTP  not found. The requested page was not found. This
          return code only appears if --fail is used.

     23   Write error.  Curl  couldn't  write  data  to  a  local
          filesystem or similar.

     24   Malformat user. User name badly specified.

     25   FTP  couldn't  STOR  file.  The  server denied the STOR
          operation.

     26   Read error. Various reading problems.

     27   Out of memory. A memory allocation request failed.

     28   Operation timeout. The specified  time-out  period  was
          reached according to the conditions.

     29   FTP  couldn't set ASCII. The server returned an unknown
          reply.

     30   FTP PORT failed. The PORT command failed.

     31   FTP couldn't use REST. The REST command failed.

     32   FTP couldn't use SIZE. The  SIZE  command  failed.  The
          command  is  an  extension to the original FTP spec RFC
          959.

     33   HTTP range error. The range "command" didn't work.

     34   HTTP  post  error.  Internal  post-request   generation
          error.

     35   SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.

     36   FTP  bad  download resume. Couldn't continue an earlier
          aborted download.

     37   FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file.  Per­
          missions?

     38   LDAP cannot bind. LDAP bind operation failed.

     39   LDAP search failed.

     40   Library not found. The LDAP library was not found.

     41   Function  not  found.  A required LDAP function was not
          found.

     42   Aborted by callback. An application told curl to  abort
          the operation.

     43   Internal  error.  A  function  was  called  with  a bad
          parameter.

     44   Internal error. A function was called in a bad order.

     45   Interface error. A specified outgoing  interface  could
          not be used.

     46   Bad  password  entered.  An error was signaled when the
          password was entered.

     47   Too many redirects. When following redirects, curl  hit
          the maximum amount.

     48   Unknown TELNET option specified.

     49   Malformed telnet option.

     51   The remote peer's SSL certificate wasn't ok

     52   The server didn't reply anything, which here is consid­
          ered an error.

     53   SSL crypto engine not found

     54   Cannot set SSL crypto engine as default

     55   Failed sending network data

     56   Failure in receiving network data

     57   Share is in use (internal error)

     58   Problem with the local certificate

     59   Couldn't use specified SSL cipher

     60   Problem with the CA cert (path? permission?)

     61   Unrecognized transfer encoding

     XX   There will appear  more  error  codes  here  in  future
          releases.  The existing ones are meant to never change.


BUGS

     If you do find bugs, mail them to curl-bug@haxx.se.


AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS

     Daniel Stenberg is the main author, but the  whole  list  of
     contributors is found in the separate THANKS file.


WWW

     http://curl.haxx.se


FTP

     ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/


SEE ALSO

     ftp(1), wget(1), snarf(1)
















































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