Commit 62960f8a authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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I think it's worth clarifying that curl DOES NOT validate a given URL more 

than what's absolutely necessary:

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
VERY liberal with what it accepts.
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@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ 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