Commit 68e2c9a8 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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FAQ: clarify the 3.4 section 

You can do custom commands to FTP without sending anything by using the
CURLOPT_NOBODY, which -I sets.
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  You can tell curl to perform optional commands both before and/or after a

  file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option.



  Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform

  FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must always specify

  a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands.

  Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't normally use curl to

  perform FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must

  always specify a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP

  commands, or use -I which implies the "no body" option sent to libcurl.



  3.5 How can I disable the Accept: */* header?