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Commit bc8375a1 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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removed silly old -t usage from here, added some blurb about the "new" -t

that sets telnet options
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......@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ UPLOADING
Upload all data on stdin to a specified ftp site:
curl -t ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
curl -T - ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
Upload data from a specified file, login with user and password:
......@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ UPLOADING
Upload all data on stdin to a specified http site:
curl -t http://www.upload.com/myfile
curl -T - http://www.upload.com/myfile
Note that the http server must've been configured to accept PUT before this
can be done successfully.
......@@ -756,6 +756,17 @@ TELNET
You might want the -N/--no-buffer option to switch off the buffered output
for slow connections or similar.
Pass options to the telnet protocol negotiation, by using the -t option. To
tell the server we use a vt100 terminal, try something like:
curl -tTTYPE=vt100 telnet://remote.server.com
Other interesting options for it -t include:
- XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.
- NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.
NOTE: the telnet protocol does not specify any way to login with a specified
user and password so curl can't do that automatically. To do that, you need
to track when the login prompt is received and send the username and
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