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Commit 52560142 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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......@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ SIMPLE USAGE
curl ftp://cool.haxx.se/ http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/
Get a file off an FTPS server:
curl ftps://files.are.secure.com/secrets.txt
or use the more appropriate FTPS way to get the same file:
curl --ftp-ssl ftp://files.are.secure.com/secrets.txt
DOWNLOAD TO A FILE
Get a web page and store in a local file:
......@@ -64,6 +73,10 @@ USING PASSWORDS
It is just like for FTP, but you may also want to specify and use
SSL-specific options for certificates etc.
Note that using FTPS:// as prefix is the "implicit" way as described in the
standards while the recommended "explicit" way is done by using FTP:// and
the --ftp-ssl option.
HTTP
The HTTP URL doesn't support user and password in the URL string. Curl
......@@ -105,6 +118,8 @@ PROXY
curl -U user:passwd -x my-proxy:888 http://www.get.this/
curl also supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies with --socks4 and --socks5.
See also the environment variables Curl support that offer further proxy
control.
......@@ -846,6 +861,22 @@ PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS
transfers faster. If you use a http proxy for file transfers, practically
all transfers will be persistent.
MULTIPLE TRANSFERS WITH A SINGLE COMMAND LINE
As is mentioned above, you can download multiple files with one command line
by simply adding more URLs. If you want those to get saved to a local file
instead of just printed to stdout, you need to add one save option for each
URL you specify. Note that this also goes for the -O option.
For example: get two files and use -O for the first and a custom file
name for the second:
curl -O http://url.com/file.txt ftp://ftp.com/moo.exe -o moo.jpg
You can also upload multiple files in a similar fashion:
curl -T local1 ftp://ftp.com/moo.exe -T local2 ftp://ftp.com/moo2.txt
MAILING LISTS
For your convenience, we have several open mailing lists to discuss curl,
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