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/* NEVER EVER edit this manually, fix the mkhelp script instead! */
#include <stdio.h>
void hugehelp(void)
{
puts (
"                                  _   _ ____  _     \n"
"  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \\| |    \n"
"                             / __| | | | |_) | |    \n"
"                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___ \n"
"                             \\___|\\___/|_| \\_\\_____|\n"
"NAME\n"
"     curl - get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE,\n"
"     HTTP or HTTPS syntax.\n"
"\n"
"SYNOPSIS\n"
"     curl [options] [URL...]\n"
"\n"
"DESCRIPTION\n"
"     curl is a client to get documents/files from or  send  docu­\n"
);
 puts(
"     ments  to  a  server,  using  any of the supported protocols\n"
"     (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, GOPHER, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or FILE).  The\n"
"     command  is designed to work without user interaction or any\n"
"     kind of interactivity.\n"
"\n"
"     curl offers a busload of useful tricks like  proxy  support,\n"
"     user  authentication,  ftp  upload,  HTTP post, SSL (https:)\n"
"     connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more.\n"
"\n"
"URL\n"
"     The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You'll find a detailed\n"
);
 puts(
"     description in RFC 2396.\n"
"\n"
"     You  can  specify  multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing\n"
"     part sets within braces as in:\n"
"\n"
"      http://site.{one,two,three}.com\n"
"\n"
"     or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using  []\n"
"     as in:\n"
"\n"
"      ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt\n"
"      ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading\n"
"     zeros)\n"
"      ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt\n"
"\n"
"     It is possible to specify up to 9 sets or series for a  URL,\n"
);
 puts(
"     but no nesting is supported at the moment:\n"
"\n"
"      http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol­\n"
"     ume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html\n"
"\n"
"     You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They\n"
"     will  be  fetched  in  a  sequential manner in the specified\n"
"     order.\n"
"\n"
"     Curl will attempt to re-use connections  for  multiple  file\n"
"     transfers,  so  that getting many files from the same server\n"
"     will not do multiple connects /  handshakes.  This  improves\n"
);
 puts(
"     speed.  Of  course this is only done on files specified on a\n"
"     single command line and cannot be used between separate curl\n"
"     invokes.\n"
"OPTIONS\n"
"     -a/--append\n"
"          (FTP) When used in a ftp upload, this will tell curl to\n"
"          append to the target file instead of overwriting it. If\n"
"          the file doesn't exist, it will be created.\n"
"\n"
"          If  this option is used twice, the second one will dis­\n"
"          able append mode again.\n"
"\n"
"     -A/--user-agent <agent string>\n"
);
 puts(
"          (HTTP) Specify the User-Agent string  to  send  to  the\n"
"          HTTP  server.  Some badly done CGIs fail if its not set\n"
"          to \"Mozilla/4.0\".  To encode blanks in the string, sur­\n"
"          round  the  string  with  single quote marks.  This can\n"
"          also be set with the -H/--header flag of course.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is set more than once, the last one will\n"
"          be the one that's used.\n"
"\n"
"     -b/--cookie <name=data>\n"
);
 puts(
"          (HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It\n"
"          is supposedly the data  previously  received  from  the\n"
"          server  in a \"Set-Cookie:\" line.  The data should be in\n"
"          the format \"NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2\".\n"
"\n"
"          If no '=' letter is used in the line, it is treated  as\n"
"          a  filename  to  use  to  read previously stored cookie\n"
"          lines from, which should be used  in  this  session  if\n"
);
 puts(
"          they  match.  Using  this  method  also  activates  the\n"
"          \"cookie parser\" which will make  curl  record  incoming\n"
"          cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this in\n"
"          combination with the  -L/--location  option.  The  file\n"
"          format of the file to read cookies from should be plain\n"
"          HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie  file  for­\n"
"          mat.\n"
"\n"
"          NOTE  that  the file specified with -b/--cookie is only\n"
);
 puts(
"          used as input. No cookies will be stored in  the  file.\n"
"          To store cookies, save the HTTP headers to a file using\n"
"          -D/--dump-header!\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is set more than once, the last one will\n"
"          be the one that's used.\n"
"\n"
"     -B/--use-ascii\n"
"          Use  ASCII  transfer  when  getting an FTP file or LDAP\n"
"          info. For FTP, this can also be enforced  by  using  an\n"
"          URL  that  ends with \";type=A\". This option causes data\n"
);
 puts(
"          sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32 systems.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice, the second one will  dis­\n"
"          able ASCII usage.\n"
"     --connect-timeout <seconds>\n"
"          Maximum  time  in seconds that you allow the connection\n"
"          to the server to take.  This only limits the connection\n"
"          phase,  once  curl  has  connected this option is of no\n"
"          more use. This option  didn't  work  in  win32  systems\n"
);
 puts(
"          until 7.7.2.  See also the --max-time option.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -c/--continue\n"
"          Deprecated. Use '-C -' instead.  Continue/Resume a pre­\n"
"          vious  file  transfer.  This instructs curl to continue\n"
"          appending data on the  file  where  it  was  previously\n"
"          left,  possibly  because  of a broken connection to the\n"
"          server. There must be a named physical file  to  append\n"
);
 puts(
"          to  for  this to work.  Note: Upload resume is depening\n"
"          on a command named SIZE not always present in  all  ftp\n"
"          servers! Upload resume is for FTP only.  HTTP resume is\n"
"          only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.\n"
"\n"
"     -C/--continue-at <offset>\n"
"          Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at  the  given\n"
"          offset.  The  given offset is the exact number of bytes\n"
"          that will be skipped counted from the beginning of  the\n"
);
 puts(
"          source file before it is transfered to the destination.\n"
"          If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE  will\n"
"          not  be  used  by  curl. Upload resume is for FTP only.\n"
"          HTTP resume is only possible  with  HTTP/1.1  or  later\n"
"          servers.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -d/--data <data>\n"
"          (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a  POST  request  to\n"
);
 puts(
"          the HTTP server, in a way that can emulate as if a user\n"
"          has filled in a HTML form and pressed the  submit  but­\n"
"          ton.  Note  that  the data is sent exactly as specified\n"
"          with no extra processing (with all newlines  cut  off).\n"
"          The  data  is  expected  to be \"url-encoded\". This will\n"
"          cause curl to pass the data to  the  server  using  the\n"
"          content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare\n"
);
 puts(
"          to -F. If more than one -d/--data option is used on the\n"
"          same  command  line,  the data pieces specified will be\n"
"          merged together with a separating &-letter. Thus, using\n"
"          '-d  name=daniel  -d skill=lousy' would generate a post\n"
"          chunk that looks like 'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.\n"
"\n"
"          If you start the data  with  the  letter  @,  the  rest\n"
"          should  be  a  file name to read the data from, or - if\n"
);
 puts(
"          you want  curl  to  read  the  data  from  stdin.   The\n"
"          contents  of the file must already be url-encoded. Mul­\n"
"          tiple files can also be specified.\n"
"\n"
"          To post data purely binary, you should instead use  the\n"
"          --data-binary option.\n"
"\n"
"          -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii.\n"
"\n"
"          If  this option is used several times, the ones follow­\n"
"          ing the first will append data.\n"
"\n"
"     --data-ascii <data>\n"
);
 puts(
"          (HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the ones  follow­\n"
"          ing the first will append data.\n"
"\n"
"     --data-binary <data>\n"
"          (HTTP)  This  posts data in a similar manner as --data-\n"
"          ascii does, although when using this option the  entire\n"
"          context  of  the posted data is kept as-is. If you want\n"
"          to post a binary file without the  strip-newlines  fea­\n"
);
 puts(
"          ture of the --data-ascii option, this is for you.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the ones  follow­\n"
"          ing the first will append data.\n"
"\n"
"     -D/--dump-header <file>\n"
"          (HTTP/FTP)  Write  the HTTP headers to this file. Write\n"
"          the FTP file info to this file if -I/--head is used.\n"
"\n"
"          This option is handy to use when you want to store  the\n"
);
 puts(
"          cookies  that  a  HTTP  site  sends to you. The cookies\n"
"          could then be read in a second curl invoke by using the\n"
"          -b/--cookie option!\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -e/--referer <URL>\n"
"          (HTTP) Sends the \"Referer Page\" information to the HTTP\n"
"          server.  This can also be set with the -H/--header flag\n"
"          of course.  When used with -L/--location you can append\n"
);
 puts(
"          \";auto\"  to  the referer URL to make curl automatically\n"
"          set the  previous  URL  when  it  follows  a  Location:\n"
"          header.  The  \";auto\" string can be used alone, even if\n"
"          you don't set an initial referer.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     --egd-file <file>\n"
"          (HTTPS)  Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering\n"
"          Daemon socket. The socket is used to  seed  the  random\n"
);
 puts(
"          engine  for SSL connections. See also the --random-file\n"
"          option.\n"
"\n"
"     -E/--cert <certificate[:password]>\n"
"          (HTTPS) Tells curl to  use  the  specified  certificate\n"
"          file  when  getting  a file with HTTPS. The certificate\n"
"          must be in PEM format.  If the optional password  isn't\n"
"          specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note\n"
"          that this certificate is the private key and  the  pri­\n"
"          vate certificate concatenated!\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     --cacert <CA certificate>\n"
"          (HTTPS) Tells curl to  use  the  specified  certificate\n"
"          file to verify the peer. The certificate must be in PEM\n"
"          format.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -f/--fail\n"
"          (HTTP)  Fail  silently  (no  output  at  all) on server\n"
);
 puts(
"          errors. This is mostly done like this to better  enable\n"
"          scripts  etc  to  better  deal with failed attempts. In\n"
"          normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a doc­\n"
"          ument,  it  returns  a  HTML document stating so (which\n"
"          often also describes why and more). This flag will pre­\n"
"          vent  curl  from  outputting  that  and  fail  silently\n"
"          instead.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
);
 puts(
"          disable silent failure.\n"
"\n"
"     -F/--form <name=content>\n"
"          (HTTP) This lets curl emulate a filled in form in which\n"
"          a user has pressed the submit button. This causes  curl\n"
"          to POST data using the content-type multipart/form-data\n"
"          according to RFC1867. This enables uploading of  binary\n"
"          files etc. To force the 'content' part to be be a file,\n"
"          prefix the file name with an @ sign. To  just  get  the\n"
);
 puts(
"          content part from a file, prefix the file name with the\n"
"          letter <. The difference between @ and < is then that @\n"
"          makes a file get attached in the post as a file upload,\n"
"          while the < makes a text field and just  get  the  con­\n"
"          tents for that text field from a file.\n"
"          Example,  to  send  your  password  file to the server,\n"
"          where 'password' is the name of the form-field to which\n"
"          /etc/passwd will be the input:\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          curl -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com\n"
"\n"
"          To read the file's content from stdin insted of a file,\n"
"          use - where the file name should've been. This goes for\n"
"          both @ and < constructs.\n"
"\n"
"          This option can be used multiple times.\n"
"\n"
"     -g/--globoff\n"
"          This  option  switches  off  the \"URL globbing parser\".\n"
"          When you set this option, you  can  specify  URLs  that\n"
"          contain  the  letters  {}[]  without  having them being\n"
);
 puts(
"          interpreted by curl itself. Note that these letters are\n"
"          not  normal  legal  URL  contents  but  they  should be\n"
"          encoded according to the URI standard. (Option added in\n"
"          curl 7.6)\n"
"\n"
"     -h/--help\n"
"          Usage help.\n"
"\n"
"     -H/--header <header>\n"
"          (HTTP) Extra header to use when getting a web page. You\n"
"          may specify any number of extra headers. Note  that  if\n"
"          you  should  add a custom header that has the same name\n"
);
 puts(
"          as one of the internal ones curl would use, your exter­\n"
"          nally  set  header will be used instead of the internal\n"
"          one. This allows you to make even trickier  stuff  than\n"
"          curl  would  normally do. You should not replace inter­\n"
"          nally set headers without knowing perfectly  well  what\n"
"          you're  doing.  Replacing  an  internal header with one\n"
"          without content on the right side  of  the  colon  will\n"
);
 puts(
"          prevent that header from appearing.\n"
"\n"
"          This option can be used multiple times.\n"
"\n"
"     -i/--include\n"
"          (HTTP) Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-\n"
"          header includes things like server-name,  date  of  the\n"
"          document, HTTP-version and more...\n"
"\n"
"          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again\n"
"          disable header include.\n"
"\n"
"     --interface <name>\n"
"          Perform an operation using a specified  interface.  You\n"
);
 puts(
"          can  enter  interface name, IP address or host name. An\n"
"          example could look like:\n"
"          curl --interface eth0:1 http://www.netscape.com/\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -I/--head\n"
"          (HTTP/FTP)  Fetch  the  HTTP-header  only! HTTP-servers\n"
"          feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing\n"
"          but  the header of a document. When used on a FTP file,\n"
);
 puts(
"          curl displays the file size only.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable header only.\n"
"\n"
"     --krb4 <level>\n"
"          (FTP)  Enable  kerberos4  authentication  and  use. The\n"
"          level must be entered and should  be  one  of  'clear',\n"
"          'safe',  'confidential'  or 'private'. Should you use a\n"
"          level that is not one of these, 'private' will  instead\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -K/--config <config file>\n"
"          Specify which config file to read curl arguments  from.\n"
"          The  config  file  is a text file in which command line\n"
"          arguments can be written which then will be used as  if\n"
"          they  were  written on the actual command line. Options\n"
"          and their parameters must be specified on the same con­\n"
);
 puts(
"          fig  file  line.  If  the parameter is to contain white\n"
"          spaces, the parameter must be inclosed  within  quotes.\n"
"          If  the  first column of a config line is a '#' charac­\n"
"          ter, the rest of the line will be treated as a comment.\n"
"\n"
"          Specify  the filename as '-' to make curl read the file\n"
"          from stdin.\n"
"\n"
"          This option can be used multiple times.\n"
"\n"
"     -l/--list-only\n"
"          (FTP) When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces\n"
);
 puts(
"          a  name-only  view.   Especially  useful if you want to\n"
"          machine-parse the contents of an  FTP  directory  since\n"
"          the  normal  directory view doesn't use a standard look\n"
"          or format.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable list only.\n"
"\n"
"     -L/--location\n"
"          (HTTP/HTTPS)  If  the server reports that the requested\n"
"          page has  a  different  location  (indicated  with  the\n"
);
 puts(
"          header  line Location:) this flag will let curl attempt\n"
"          to reattempt the get on the new place. If used together\n"
"          with -i or -I, headers from all requested pages will be\n"
"          shown. If this flag is used when making  a  HTTP  POST,\n"
"          curl will automatically switch to GET after the initial\n"
"          POST has been done.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable location following.\n"
"\n"
"     -m/--max-time <seconds>\n"
);
 puts(
"          Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole opera­\n"
"          tion to take.  This is useful for preventing your batch\n"
"          jobs  from  hanging  for  hours due to slow networks or\n"
"          links going down.  This doesn't  work  fully  in  win32\n"
"          systems.  See also the --connect-timeout option.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -M/--manual\n"
"          Manual. Display the huge help text.\n"
"\n"
"     -n/--netrc\n"
);
 puts(
"          Makes curl scan the .netrc  file  in  the  user's  home\n"
"          directory  for  login  name and password. This is typi­\n"
"          cally used for ftp on unix. If  used  with  http,  curl\n"
"          will  enable  user  authentication.  See  netrc(4)  for\n"
"          details on the file format. Curl will not  complain  if\n"
"          that  file  hasn't the right permissions (it should not\n"
"          be world nor group readable). The environment  variable\n"
);
 puts(
"          \"HOME\" is used to find the home directory.\n"
"\n"
"          A  quick  and  very  simple  example  of how to setup a\n"
"          .netrc  to  allow  curl   to   ftp   to   the   machine\n"
"          host.domain.com  with  user  name 'myself' and password\n"
"          'secret' should look similar to:\n"
"\n"
"          machine host.domain.com login myself password secret\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable netrc usage.\n"
"\n"
"     -N/--no-buffer\n"
);
 puts(
"          Disables  the buffering of the output stream. In normal\n"
"          work situations, curl will use a standard buffered out­\n"
"          put  stream that will have the effect that it will out­\n"
"          put the data in chunks, not  necessarily  exactly  when\n"
"          the  data arrives.  Using this option will disable that\n"
"          buffering.\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          switch on buffering.\n"
"\n"
"     -o/--output <file>\n"
);
 puts(
"          Write  output  to  <file> instead of stdout. If you are\n"
"          using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you can use\n"
"          '#'  followed by a number in the <file> specifier. That\n"
"          variable will be replaced with the current  string  for\n"
"          the URL being fetched. Like in:\n"
"\n"
"            curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o \"file_#1.txt\"\n"
"\n"
"          or use several variables like:\n"
"\n"
"            curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o \"#1_#2\"\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          You  may use this option as many times as you have num­\n"
"          ber of URLs.\n"
"\n"
"     -O/--remote-name\n"
"          Write output to a local file named like the remote file\n"
"          we get. (Only the file part of the remote file is used,\n"
"          the path is cut off.)\n"
"\n"
"          You may use this option as many times as you have  num­\n"
"          ber of URLs.\n"
"\n"
"     -p/--proxytunnel\n"
"          When an HTTP proxy is used, this option will cause non-\n"
);
 puts(
"          HTTP protocols to attempt to tunnel through  the  proxy\n"
"          instead  of merely using it to do HTTP-like operations.\n"
"          The tunnel approach is made with the HTTP proxy CONNECT\n"
"          request  and requires that the proxy allows direct con­\n"
"          nect to the remote port number  curl  wants  to  tunnel\n"
"          through to.\n"
"\n"
"          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again\n"
"          disable proxy tunnel.\n"
"\n"
"     -P/--ftpport <address>\n"
);
 puts(
"          (FTP) Reverses the initiator/listener roles  when  con­\n"
"          necting  with  ftp. This switch makes Curl use the PORT\n"
"          command instead of PASV. In practice,  PORT  tells  the\n"
"          server to connect to the client's specified address and\n"
"          port, while PASV asks the server for an ip address  and\n"
"          port to connect to. <address> should be one of:\n"
"\n"
"          interface   i.e  \"eth0\" to specify which interface's IP\n"
);
 puts(
"                      address you want to use  (Unix only)\n"
"\n"
"          IP address  i.e \"192.168.10.1\" to specify exact IP num­\n"
"                      ber\n"
"          host name   i.e \"my.host.domain\" to specify machine\n"
"\n"
"          -           (any  single-letter string) to make it pick\n"
"                      the machine's default\n"
"\n"
"     If this option is used several times, the last one  will  be\n"
"     used.\n"
"\n"
"     -q   If used as the first parameter on the command line, the\n"
);
 puts(
"          $HOME/.curlrc file will not be read and used as a  con­\n"
"          fig file.\n"
"\n"
"     -Q/--quote <comand>\n"
"          (FTP)  Send  an  arbitrary  command  to  the remote FTP\n"
"          server, by using the QUOTE command of the  server.  Not\n"
"          all  servers support this command, and the set of QUOTE\n"
"          commands are server specific! Quote commands  are  sent\n"
"          BEFORE  the  transfer is taking place. To make commands\n"
);
 puts(
"          take place after a  successful  transfer,  prefix  them\n"
"          with a dash '-'. You may specify any amount of commands\n"
"          to be run before and after the transfer. If the  server\n"
"          returns  failure  for  one  of the commands, the entire\n"
"          operation will be aborted.\n"
"\n"
"          This option can be used multiple times.\n"
"\n"
"     --random-file <file>\n"
"          (HTTPS) Specify the path name to file  containing  what\n"
);
 puts(
"          will  be considered as random data. The data is used to\n"
"          seed the random engine for SSL connections.   See  also\n"
"          the --edg-file option.\n"
"\n"
"     -r/--range <range>\n"
"          (HTTP/FTP)  Retrieve  a byte range (i.e a partial docu­\n"
"          ment) from a HTTP/1.1 or  FTP  server.  Ranges  can  be\n"
"          specified in a number of ways.\n"
"\n"
"          0-499     specifies the first 500 bytes\n"
"\n"
"          500-999   specifies the second 500 bytes\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          -500      specifies the last 500 bytes\n"
"\n"
"          9500      specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and for­\n"
"                    ward\n"
"\n"
"          0-0,-1    specifies the first and last byte only(*)(H)\n"
"\n"
"          500-700,600-799\n"
"                    specifies 300 bytes from offset 500(H)\n"
"\n"
"          100-199,500-599\n"
"                    specifies two separate 100 bytes ranges(*)(H)\n"
"\n"
"     (*)  =  NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a\n"
"     multipart response!\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers  do  not\n"
"     have this feature enabled, so that when you attempt to get a\n"
"     range, you'll instead get the whole document.\n"
"\n"
"     FTP range downloads only support the simple  syntax  'start-\n"
"     stop'  (optionally  with  one  of  the  numbers omitted). It\n"
"     depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.\n"
"\n"
"     If this option is used several times, the last one  will  be\n"
"     used.\n"
"\n"
"     -s/--silent\n"
);
 puts(
"          Silent  mode.  Don't  show progress meter or error mes­\n"
"          sages.  Makes Curl mute.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable mute.\n"
"\n"
"     -S/--show-error\n"
"          When  used  with -s it makes curl show error message if\n"
"          it fails.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used twice,  the  second  will  again\n"
"          disable show error.\n"
"\n"
"     -t/--telnet-option <OPT=val>\n"
"          Pass  options to the telnet protocol. Supported options\n"
);
 puts(
"          are:\n"
"\n"
"          TTYPE=<term> Sets the terminal type.\n"
"\n"
"          XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.\n"
"\n"
"          NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.\n"
"\n"
"     -T/--upload-file <file>\n"
"          Like -t, but this transfers the specified  local  file.\n"
"          If  there  is  no  file part in the specified URL, Curl\n"
"          will append the local file name. NOTE that you must use\n"
"          a  trailing  / on the last directory to really prove to\n"
);
 puts(
"          Curl that there is no file name or curl will think that\n"
"          your  last  directory  name  is the remote file name to\n"
"          use. That will most likely cause the  upload  operation\n"
"          to  fail.  If this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT\n"
"          command will be used.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -u/--user <user:password>\n"
"          Specify  user  and  password  to use when fetching. See\n"
);
 puts(
"          README.curl for detailed examples of how to  use  this.\n"
"          If  no  password  is  specified,  curl  will ask for it\n"
"          interactively.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -U/--proxy-user <user:password>\n"
"          Specify  user and password to use for Proxy authentica­\n"
"          tion. If no password is specified, curl will ask for it\n"
"          interactively.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     --url <URL>\n"
"          Specify a URL to fetch. This  option  is  mostly  handy\n"
"          when you wanna specify URL(s) in a config file.\n"
"\n"
"          This option may be used any number of times. To control\n"
"          where this URL  is  written,  use  the  -o  or  the  -O\n"
"          options.\n"
"\n"
"     -v/--verbose\n"
"          Makes   the  fetching  more  verbose/talkative.  Mostly\n"
);
 puts(
"          usable for debugging. Lines  starting  with  '>'  means\n"
"          data sent by curl, '<' means data received by curl that\n"
"          is hidden in normal cases and lines starting  with  '*'\n"
"          means additional info provided by curl.\n"
"\n"
"          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again\n"
"          disable verbose.\n"
"\n"
"     -V/--version\n"
"          Displays the full version of curl,  libcurl  and  other\n"
"          3rd party libraries linked with the executable.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     -w/--write-out <format>\n"
"          Defines  what to display after a completed and success­\n"
"          ful operation. The format is a string that may  contain\n"
"          plain  text  mixed  with  any  number of variables. The\n"
"          string can be specified as \"string\", to get read from a\n"
"          particular  file you specify it \"@filename\" and to tell\n"
"          curl to read the format from stdin you write \"@-\".\n"
"\n"
"          The variables present in the output format will be sub­\n"
);
 puts(
"          stituted  by the value or text that curl thinks fit, as\n"
"          described  below.  All  variables  are  specified  like\n"
"          %{variable_name}  and  to  output  a  normal % you just\n"
"          write them like %%. You can output a newline  by  using\n"
"          \\n, a carrige return with \\r and a tab space with \\t.\n"
"\n"
"          NOTE:   The   %-letter  is  a  special  letter  in  the\n"
"          win32-environment, where all occurrences of %  must  be\n"
);
 puts(
"          doubled when using this option.\n"
"\n"
"          Available variables are at this point:\n"
"\n"
"          url_effective  The  URL  that was fetched last. This is\n"
"                         mostly meaningful if you've told curl to\n"
"                         follow location: headers.\n"
"\n"
"          http_code      The numerical code that was found in the\n"
"                         last retrieved HTTP(S) page.\n"
"\n"
"          time_total     The total time,  in  seconds,  that  the\n"
);
 puts(
"                         full  operation lasted. The time will be\n"
"                         displayed with millisecond resolution.\n"
"\n"
"          time_namelookup\n"
"                         The time, in seconds, it took  from  the\n"
"                         start  until the name resolving was com­\n"
"                         pleted.\n"
"\n"
"          time_connect   The time, in seconds, it took  from  the\n"
"                         start  until  the  connect to the remote\n"
);
 puts(
"                         host (or proxy) was completed.\n"
"\n"
"          time_pretransfer\n"
"                         The time, in seconds, it took  from  the\n"
"                         start  until  the  file transfer is just\n"
"                         about to begin. This includes  all  pre-\n"
"                         transfer  commands and negotiations that\n"
"                         are specific to  the  particular  proto­\n"
"                         col(s) involved.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          size_download  The  total  amount  of  bytes  that were\n"
"                         downloaded.\n"
"\n"
"          size_upload    The total  amount  of  bytes  that  were\n"
"                         uploaded.\n"
"\n"
"          size_header    The  total  amount of bytes of the down­\n"
"                         loaded headers.\n"
"\n"
"          size_request   The total amount of bytes that were sent\n"
"                         in the HTTP request.\n"
"\n"
"          speed_download The  average  download  speed  that curl\n"
);
 puts(
"                         measured for the complete download.\n"
"          speed_upload   The average upload speed that curl  mea­\n"
"                         sured for the complete upload.\n"
"\n"
"     If  this  option is used several times, the last one will be\n"
"     used.\n"
"\n"
"     -x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>\n"
"          Use specified proxy. If the port number is  not  speci­\n"
"          fied, it is assumed at port 1080.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     -X/--request <command>\n"
"          (HTTP) Specifies a custom request to use when  communi­\n"
"          cating  with  the  HTTP  server.  The specified request\n"
"          will be used instead of the standard GET. Read the HTTP\n"
"          1.1 specification for details and explanations.\n"
"\n"
"          (FTP)  Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of\n"
"          LIST when doing file lists with ftp.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     -y/--speed-time <time>\n"
"          If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per sec­\n"
"          ond during  a  speed-time  period,  the  download  gets\n"
"          aborted. If speed-time is used, the default speed-limit\n"
"          will be 1 unless set with -y.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -Y/--speed-limit <speed>\n"
"          If a download is slower than this given speed, in bytes\n"
);
 puts(
"          per second, for speed-time  seconds  it  gets  aborted.\n"
"          speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if not set.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -z/--time-cond <date expression>\n"
"          (HTTP) Request to get a file  that  has  been  modified\n"
"          later  than  the  given  time and date, or one that has\n"
"          been modified before that time. The date expression can\n"
);
 puts(
"          be all sorts of date strings or if it doesn't match any\n"
"          internal ones, it tries to get the time  from  a  given\n"
"          file  name  instead!  See  the GNU date(1) or curl_get­\n"
"          date(3) man pages for date expression details.\n"
"\n"
"          Start the date expression with a dash (-)  to  make  it\n"
"          request  for  a  document  that is older than the given\n"
"          date/time, default is a document that is newer than the\n"
"          specified date/time.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"     -3/--sslv3\n"
"          (HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiat­\n"
"          ing with a remote SSL server.\n"
"\n"
"     -2/--sslv2\n"
"          (HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when negotiat­\n"
"          ing with a remote SSL server.\n"
"\n"
"     -#/--progress-bar\n"
"          Make curl display progress information  as  a  progress\n"
"          bar instead of the default statistics.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again\n"
"          disable the progress bar.\n"
"\n"
"     --crlf\n"
"          (FTP) Convert LF to CRLF  in  upload.  Useful  for  MVS\n"
"          (OS/390).\n"
"\n"
"          If  this  option  is  used twice, the second will again\n"
"          disable crlf converting.\n"
"\n"
"     --stderr <file>\n"
"          Redirect all writes to stderr  to  the  specified  file\n"
"          instead. If the file name is a plain '-', it is instead\n"
);
 puts(
"          written to stdout. This option has no point when you're\n"
"          using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities.\n"
"\n"
"          If this option is used several times, the last one will\n"
"          be used.\n"
"\n"
"FILES\n"
"     ~/.curlrc\n"
"          Default config file.\n"
"\n"
"ENVIRONMENT\n"
"     HTTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]\n"
"          Sets proxy server to use for HTTP.\n"
"\n"
"     HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]\n"
"          Sets proxy server to use for HTTPS.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     FTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]\n"
"          Sets proxy server to use for FTP.\n"
"     GOPHER_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]\n"
"          Sets proxy server to use for GOPHER.\n"
"\n"
"     ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]\n"
"          Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific  proxy\n"
"          is set.\n"
"\n"
"     NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>\n"
"          list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy.\n"
"          If set to a asterisk '*' only, it matches all hosts.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     COLUMNS <integer>\n"
"          The width of the terminal.  This variable only  affects\n"
"          curl when the --progress-bar option is used.\n"
"\n"
"EXIT CODES\n"
"     There exists a bunch of different error codes and their cor­\n"
"     responding error messages that may appear during bad  condi­\n"
"     tions. At the time of this writing, the exit codes are:\n"
"\n"
"     1    Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no support\n"
"          for this protocol.\n"
"\n"
"     2    Failed to initialize.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     3    URL malformat. The syntax was not correct.\n"
"\n"
"     4    URL user malformatted. The user-part of the URL  syntax\n"
"          was not correct.\n"
"\n"
"     5    Couldn't  resolve proxy. The given proxy host could not\n"
"          be resolved.\n"
"\n"
"     6    Couldn't resolve host. The given remote  host  was  not\n"
"          resolved.\n"
"\n"
"     7    Failed to connect to host.\n"
"\n"
"     8    FTP  weird  server  reply.  The  server  sent data curl\n"
"          couldn't parse.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     9    FTP access denied. The server denied login.\n"
"\n"
"     10   FTP user/password incorrect. Either one  or  both  were\n"
"          not accepted by the server.\n"
"\n"
"     11   FTP  weird  PASS  reply.  Curl couldn't parse the reply\n"
"          sent to the PASS request.\n"
"\n"
"     12   FTP weird USER reply. Curl  couldn't  parse  the  reply\n"
"          sent to the USER request.\n"
"     13   FTP  weird  PASV  reply,  Curl couldn't parse the reply\n"
"          sent to the PASV request.\n"
"\n"
);
 puts(
"     14   FTP weird 227 format. Curl couldn't parse the  227-line\n"
"          the server sent.\n"
"\n"
"     15   FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we got\n"
"          in the 227-line.\n"
"\n"
"     16   FTP can't reconnect. Couldn't connect to  the  host  we\n"
"          got in the 227-line.\n"
"\n"
"     17   FTP  couldn't  set  binary.  Couldn't  change  transfer\n"
"          method to binary.\n"
"\n"
"     18   Partial file. Only a part of the file was transfered.\n"
"\n"