Commit f3e5d4a6 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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curl doesn't do recursive operations

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docs/FAQ

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Updated: December 8, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

Updated: December 22, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

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  3.12 Why do FTP specific features over HTTP proxy fail?

  3.13 Why does my single/double quotes fail?

  3.14 Does curl support javascript or pac (automated proxy config)?

  3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl?



 4. Running Problems

  4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
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    - Ask your admins to stop this, for a static proxy setup or similar.



  3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl?



  No. curl itself has no code that performs recursive operations, such as

  those performed by wget.



  There exist wrapper scripts with that functionality (for example the

  curlmirror perl script), and you can write programs based on libcurl to do

  it, but the command line tool curl itself cannot.



4. Running Problems