From f3e5d4a6022cd3f0fee884f360967e7794eb026a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:24:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] curl doesn't do recursive operations
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docs/FAQ | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ
index 93413e5316..d27ad1ca37 100644
--- a/docs/FAQ
+++ b/docs/FAQ
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-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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@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ FAQ
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.
@@ -454,6 +455,14 @@ FAQ
- 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
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