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Commit 987b67bd authored by Dan Fandrich's avatar Dan Fandrich
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Added IPv6 section

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with = or :. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a
line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment.
If you want the parameter to contain spaces, you must inclose the entire
If you want the parameter to contain spaces, you must enclose the entire
parameter within double quotes ("). Within those quotes, you specify a
quote as \".
......@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ FTP and PATH NAMES
FTP and firewalls
The FTP protocol requires one of the involved parties to open a second
connction as soon as data is about to get transfered. There are two ways to
connection as soon as data is about to get transfered. There are two ways to
do this.
The default way for curl is to issue the PASV command which causes the
......@@ -886,6 +886,25 @@ MULTIPLE TRANSFERS WITH A SINGLE COMMAND LINE
curl -T local1 ftp://ftp.com/moo.exe -T local2 ftp://ftp.com/moo2.txt
IPv6
curl will connect to a server with IPv6 when a host lookup returns an IPv6
address and fall back to IPv4 if the connection fails. The --ipv4 and --ipv6
options can specify which address to use when both are available. IPv6
addresses can also be specified directly in URLs using the syntax:
http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/overview.html
When this style is used, the -g option must be given to stop curl from
interpreting the square brackets as special globbing characters. Link local
and site local addresses including a scope identifier, such as fe80::1234%1,
may also be used, but the scope portion must be numeric and the percent
character must be URL escaped. The previous example in an SFTP URL might
look like:
sftp://[fe80::1234%251]/
MAILING LISTS
For your convenience, we have several open mailing lists to discuss curl,
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