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curl(1)			   Curl Manual			  curl(1)

NAME
       curl - transfer a URL

SYNOPSIS
       curl [options] [URL...]

DESCRIPTION
       curl  is	 a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the
       supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS,	 IMAP,
       IMAPS,  LDAP,  LDAPS,  POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS,
       TELNET and TFTP).  The command is designed to work without user	inter-
       action.

       curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authen-
       tication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file	trans-
       fer resume and more. As you will see below, the number of features will
       make your head spin!

       curl is powered by  libcurl  for	 all  transfer-related	features.  See
       libcurl(3) for details.

URL
       The  URL	 syntax is protocol-dependent. You'll find a detailed descrip-
       tion in RFC 3986.

       You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs  by  writing  part  sets
       within braces as in:

	http://site.{one,two,three}.com

       or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:

	ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
	ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt    (with leading zeros)
	ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt

       Nested  sequences  are not supported, but you can use several ones next
       to each other:

	http://any.org/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html

       You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line.	They  will  be
       fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order.

       You  can	 specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number
       or letter:

	http://www.numericals.com/file[1-100:10].txt
	http://www.letters.com/file[a-z:2].txt

       If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix,  curl  will  attempt  to
       guess  what  protocol  you might want. It will then default to HTTP but
       try other protocols based on often-used host name prefixes.  For	 exam-
       ple,  for  host names starting with "ftp." curl will assume you want to

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       speak FTP.

       curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL.  It  is  not
       trying  to  validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but
       is instead very liberal with what it accepts.

       Curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so
       that  getting many files from the same server will not do multiple con-
       nects / handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on
       files  specified	 on  a	single command line and cannot be used between
       separate curl invokes.

PROGRESS METER
       curl normally displays a progress meter during  operations,  indicating
       the  amount  of	transferred  data,  transfer speeds and estimated time
       left, etc.

       curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so  if  you	invoke
       curl  to do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal,
       it disables the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output
       mixing progress meter and response data.

       If you want a progress meter for HTTP POST or PUT requests, you need to
       redirect the response output to a file, using shell  redirect  (>),  -o
       [file] or similar.

       It  is not the same case for FTP upload as that operation does not spit
       out any response data to the terminal.

       If you prefer a progress "bar" instead of the regular meter, -# is your
       friend.

OPTIONS
       In general, all boolean options are enabled with --option and yet again
       disabled with --no-option. That is, you use the exact same option  name
       but prefix it with "no-". However, in this list we mostly only list and
       show the --option version of them. (This concept with --no options  was
       added  in  7.19.0.  Previously  most  options  were  toggled  on/off on
       repeated use of the same command line option.)

       -a/--append
	      (FTP/SFTP) When used in an upload, this will tell curl to append
	      to  the  target  file  instead  of  overwriting  it. If the file
	      doesn't exist, it will be	 created.   Note  that	this  flag  is
	      ignored by some SSH servers (including OpenSSH).

       -A/--user-agent <agent string>
	      (HTTP) Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server.
	      Some  badly  done	 CGIs  fail  if	 this  field  isn't   set   to
	      "Mozilla/4.0".  To  encode  blanks  in  the string, surround the
	      string with single quote marks. This can also be	set  with  the
	      -H/--header option of course.

	      If  this	option is set more than once, the last one will be the

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	      one that's used.

       --anyauth
	      (HTTP) Tells curl to figure out authentication method by itself,
	      and  use	the most secure one the remote site claims to support.
	      This is done by first doing a request and checking the response-
	      headers,	thus  possibly	inducing  an extra network round-trip.
	      This is  used  instead  of  setting  a  specific	authentication
	      method,  which  you  can	do with --basic, --digest, --ntlm, and
	      --negotiate.

	      Note that using --anyauth is not recommended if you  do  uploads
	      from  stdin, since it may require data to be sent twice and then
	      the client must be able to rewind. If the need should arise when
	      uploading from stdin, the upload operation will fail.

       -b/--cookie <name=data>
	      (HTTP)  Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It is sup-
	      posedly the data previously received from the server in a	 "Set-
	      Cookie:"	line.  The data should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1;
	      NAME2=VALUE2".

	      If no '=' symbol is used in the line, it is treated as  a	 file-
	      name  to	use to read previously stored cookie lines from, which
	      should be used in this session if they match. Using this	method
	      also  activates  the "cookie parser" which will make curl record
	      incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using this in
	      combination  with	 the  -L/--location option. The file format of
	      the file to read cookies from should be plain  HTTP  headers  or
	      the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format.

	      NOTE  that  the  file specified with -b/--cookie is only used as
	      input. No cookies will be stored in the file. To store  cookies,
	      use  the	-c/--cookie-jar option or you could even save the HTTP
	      headers to a file using -D/--dump-header!

	      If this option is set more than once, the last one will  be  the
	      one that's used.

       -B/--use-ascii
	      Enable  ASCII transfer when using FTP or LDAP. For FTP, this can
	      also be enforced by using an URL that ends with ";type=A".  This
	      option  causes  data sent to stdout to be in text mode for win32
	      systems.

       --basic
	      (HTTP) Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication. This is  the
	      default  and this option is usually pointless, unless you use it
	      to override a  previously	 set  option  that  sets  a  different
	      authentication  method  (such  as --ntlm, --digest, or --negoti-
	      ate).

       --ciphers <list of ciphers>
	      (SSL) Specifies which ciphers to use in the connection. The list

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	      of  ciphers  must	 specify  valid ciphers. Read up on SSL cipher
	      list	    details	      on	   this		  URL:
	      http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ciphers.html

	      NSS  ciphers  are	 done differently than OpenSSL and GnuTLS. The
	      full list of NSS ciphers is in the NSSCipherSuite entry at  this
	      URL: http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/docs/mod_nss.html#Direc-
	      tives

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will override
	      the others.

       --compressed
	      (HTTP) Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms
	      libcurl supports, and return the uncompressed document.  If this
	      option  is  used	and  the server sends an unsupported encoding,
	      curl will report an error.

       --connect-timeout <seconds>
	      Maximum time in seconds that you allow  the  connection  to  the
	      server  to  take.	  This	only limits the connection phase, once
	      curl has connected this option is of no more use. See  also  the
	      -m/--max-time option.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -c/--cookie-jar <file name>
	      Specify to which file you want curl to write all cookies after a
	      completed	 operation.  Curl  writes  all cookies previously read
	      from a specified file as	well  as  all  cookies	received  from
	      remote server(s). If no cookies are known, no file will be writ-
	      ten. The file will be written using  the	Netscape  cookie  file
	      format.  If  you	set  the  file name to a single dash, "-", the
	      cookies will be written to stdout.

	      NOTE If the cookie jar can't be created or written to, the whole
	      curl operation won't fail or even report an error clearly. Using
	      -v will get a warning displayed, but that is  the	 only  visible
	      feedback you get about this possibly lethal situation.

	      If  this	option	is used several times, the last specified file
	      name will be used.

       -C/--continue-at <offset>
	      Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at  the	given  offset.
	      The  given  offset  is  the  exact  number of bytes that will be
	      skipped, counting from the beginning of the source  file	before
	      it is transferred to the destination.  If used with uploads, the
	      FTP server command SIZE will not be used by curl.

	      Use "-C -" to tell curl to automatically find out	 where/how  to
	      resume  the  transfer. It then uses the given output/input files
	      to figure that out.

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	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --create-dirs
	      When  used  in  conjunction with the -o option, curl will create
	      the necessary local directory hierarchy as needed.  This	option
	      creates  the dirs mentioned with the -o option, nothing else. If
	      the -o file name uses no dir or if the dirs it mentions  already
	      exist, no dir will be created.

	      To  create remote directories when using FTP or SFTP, try --ftp-
	      create-dirs.

       --crlf (FTP) Convert LF to CRLF in upload. Useful for MVS (OS/390).

       --crlfile <file>
	      (HTTPS/FTPS) Provide a file using PEM format with a  Certificate
	      Revocation  List	that may specify peer certificates that are to
	      be considered revoked.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

	      (Added in 7.19.7)

       -d/--data <data>
	      (HTTP)  Sends  the  specified data in a POST request to the HTTP
	      server, in the same way that a browser  does  when  a  user  has
	      filled  in an HTML form and presses the submit button. This will
	      cause curl to pass the data to the server using the content-type
	      application/x-www-form-urlencoded.  Compare to -F/--form.

	      -d/--data	 is  the  same	as  --data-ascii.  To post data purely
	      binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option. To URL-
	      encode the value of a form field you may use --data-urlencode.

	      If  any of these options is used more than once on the same com-
	      mand line, the data pieces specified  will  be  merged  together
	      with  a  separating  &-symbol.  Thus,  using  '-d name=daniel -d
	      skill=lousy'  would  generate  a	post  chunk  that  looks  like
	      'name=daniel&skill=lousy'.

	      If  you  start  the data with the letter @, the rest should be a
	      file name to read the data from, or - if you want curl  to  read
	      the  data	 from stdin.  The contents of the file must already be
	      URL-encoded. Multiple files can also be specified. Posting  data
	      from  a file named 'foobar' would thus be done with --data @foo-
	      bar.

       --data-binary <data>
	      (HTTP) This posts data exactly as specified with no  extra  pro-
	      cessing whatsoever.

	      If  you  start  the data with the letter @, the rest should be a
	      filename.	 Data is posted in a similar  manner  as  --data-ascii
	      does,  except  that  newlines  are preserved and conversions are

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	      never done.

	      If this option is used several times,  the  ones	following  the
	      first will append data as described in -d/--data.

       --data-urlencode <data>
	      (HTTP) This posts data, similar to the other --data options with
	      the exception that this performs URL-encoding. (Added in 7.18.0)

	      To  be  CGI-compliant,  the <data> part should begin with a name
	      followed by a separator and a content specification. The	<data>
	      part can be passed to curl using one of the following syntaxes:

	      content
		     This  will make curl URL-encode the content and pass that
		     on. Just be careful so that the content  doesn't  contain
		     any  =  or	 @  symbols, as that will then make the syntax
		     match one of the other cases below!

	      =content
		     This will make curl URL-encode the content and pass  that
		     on. The preceding = symbol is not included in the data.

	      name=content
		     This  will make curl URL-encode the content part and pass
		     that on. Note that the name part is expected to  be  URL-
		     encoded already.

	      @filename
		     This  will	 make  curl  load  data	 from  the  given file
		     (including any newlines), URL-encode that data  and  pass
		     it on in the POST.

	      name@filename
		     This  will	 make  curl  load  data	 from  the  given file
		     (including any newlines), URL-encode that data  and  pass
		     it	 on  in	 the  POST.  The  name part gets an equal sign
		     appended, resulting in name=urlencoded-file-content. Note
		     that the name is expected to be URL-encoded already.

       --digest
	      (HTTP) Enables HTTP Digest authentication. This is a authentica-
	      tion that prevents the password from being sent over the wire in
	      clear  text.  Use	 this in combination with the normal -u/--user
	      option to set user name and password. See also --ntlm, --negoti-
	      ate and --anyauth for related options.

	      If  this option is used several times, the following occurrences
	      make no difference.

       --disable-eprt
	      (FTP) Tell curl to disable the use of the EPRT and LPRT commands
	      when doing active FTP transfers. Curl will normally always first
	      attempt to use EPRT, then LPRT before using PORT, but with  this

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	      option,  it  will	 use PORT right away. EPRT and LPRT are exten-
	      sions to the original FTP protocol, and  may  not	 work  on  all
	      servers, but they enable more functionality in a better way than
	      the traditional PORT command.

	      --eprt can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and --no-eprt
	      is an alias for --disable-eprt.

	      Disabling	 EPRT only changes the active behavior. If you want to
	      switch to passive mode you need  to  not	use  -P/--ftp-port  or
	      force it with --ftp-pasv.

       --disable-epsv
	      (FTP)  Tell  curl	 to  disable  the use of the EPSV command when
	      doing passive FTP transfers. Curl	 will  normally	 always	 first
	      attempt  to  use EPSV before PASV, but with this option, it will
	      not try using EPSV.

	      --epsv can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and --no-epsv
	      is an alias for --disable-epsv.

	      Disabling EPSV only changes the passive behavior. If you want to
	      switch to active mode you need to use -P/--ftp-port.

       -D/--dump-header <file>
	      Write the protocol headers to the specified file.

	      This option is handy to use when you want to store  the  headers
	      that  a  HTTP  site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could
	      then  be	read  in  a  second  curl  invocation  by  using   the
	      -b/--cookie option! The -c/--cookie-jar option is however a bet-
	      ter way to store cookies.

	      When used in FTP, the FTP server response lines  are  considered
	      being "headers" and thus are saved there.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -e/--referer <URL>
	      (HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP  server.
	      This  can also be set with the -H/--header flag of course.  When
	      used with -L/--location you can append ";auto" to the  --referer
	      URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL when it fol-
	      lows a Location: header. The ";auto" string can be  used	alone,
	      even if you don't set an initial --referer.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --engine <name>
	      Select the OpenSSL crypto engine to use for  cipher  operations.
	      Use  --engine  list  to  print  a	 list  of build-time supported
	      engines. Note that not all (or  none)  of	 the  engines  may  be
	      available at run-time.

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       --environment
	      (RISC  OS ONLY) Sets a range of environment variables, using the
	      names the -w option supports, to allow easier extraction of use-
	      ful information after having run curl.

       --egd-file <file>
	      (SSL)  Specify  the  path	 name  to the Entropy Gathering Daemon
	      socket. The socket is used to seed the  random  engine  for  SSL
	      connections. See also the --random-file option.

       -E/--cert <certificate[:password]>
	      (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file when get-
	      ting a file with HTTPS or FTPS. The certificate must be  in  PEM
	      format.	If  the	 optional password isn't specified, it will be
	      queried for on the terminal. Note that  this  option  assumes  a
	      "certificate"  file that is the private key and the private cer-
	      tificate concatenated! See --cert	 and  --key  to	 specify  them
	      independently.

	      If  curl	is  built against the NSS SSL library then this option
	      tells curl the nickname of the certificate to use within the NSS
	      database	defined	 by  the  environment  variable SSL_DIR (or by
	      default /etc/pki/nssdb). If the NSS  PEM	PKCS#11	 module	 (lib-
	      nsspem.so) is available then PEM files may be loaded.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --cert-type <type>
	      (SSL) Tells curl what certificate type the provided  certificate
	      is in. PEM, DER and ENG are recognized types.  If not specified,
	      PEM is assumed.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --cacert <CA certificate>
	      (SSL) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify
	      the peer. The file may contain  multiple	CA  certificates.  The
	      certificate(s)  must be in PEM format. Normally curl is built to
	      use a default file for this, so this option is typically used to
	      alter that default file.

	      curl  recognizes the environment variable named 'CURL_CA_BUNDLE'
	      if it is set, and uses the given path as a path  to  a  CA  cert
	      bundle. This option overrides that variable.

	      The  windows  version  of	 curl will automatically look for a CA
	      certs file named 'curl-ca-bundle.crt', either in the same direc-
	      tory as curl.exe, or in the Current Working Directory, or in any
	      folder along your PATH.

	      If curl is built against the NSS SSL library  then  this	option
	      tells  curl the nickname of the CA certificate to use within the
	      NSS database defined by the environment variable SSL_DIR (or  by
	      default	/etc/pki/nssdb).    If	the  NSS  PEM  PKCS#11	module

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	      (libnsspem.so) is available then PEM files may be loaded.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --capath <CA certificate directory>
	      (SSL)  Tells  curl to use the specified certificate directory to
	      verify the peer. The certificates must be in PEM format, and the
	      directory	 must  have  been processed using the c_rehash utility
	      supplied with openssl. Using --capath can	 allow	curl  to  make
	      SSL-connections much more efficiently than using --cacert if the
	      --cacert file contains many CA certificates.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -f/--fail
	      (HTTP)  Fail  silently (no output at all) on server errors. This
	      is mostly done to better enable scripts etc to better deal  with
	      failed  attempts.	 In  normal  cases when a HTTP server fails to
	      deliver a document, it  returns  an  HTML	 document  stating  so
	      (which  often  also describes why and more). This flag will pre-
	      vent curl from outputting that and return error 22.

	      This method is not fail-safe and there are occasions where  non-
	      successful  response  codes  will	 slip through, especially when
	      authentication is involved (response codes 401 and 407).

       --ftp-account [data]
	      (FTP) When an FTP server asks for "account data" after user name
	      and  password has been provided, this data is sent off using the
	      ACCT command. (Added in 7.13.0)

	      If this option is used twice, the second will override the  pre-
	      vious use.

       --ftp-create-dirs
	      (FTP/SFTP)  When	an  FTP or SFTP URL/operation uses a path that
	      doesn't currently exist on the server, the standard behavior  of
	      curl is to fail. Using this option, curl will instead attempt to
	      create missing directories.

       --ftp-method [method]
	      (FTP) Control what method curl should use to reach a file	 on  a
	      FTP(S)  server. The method argument should be one of the follow-
	      ing alternatives:

	      multicwd
		     curl does a single CWD operation for each	path  part  in
		     the  given URL. For deep hierarchies this means very many
		     commands. This is how RFC1738 says	 it  should  be	 done.
		     This is the default but the slowest behavior.

	      nocwd  curl  does	 no  CWD at all. curl will do SIZE, RETR, STOR
		     etc and give a full path to the server for all these com-
		     mands. This is the fastest behavior.

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	      singlecwd
		     curl does one CWD with the full target directory and then
		     operates on the file "normally"  (like  in	 the  multicwd
		     case).  This  is  somewhat	 more standards compliant than
		     'nocwd' but without the full penalty of 'multicwd'.
       (Added in 7.15.1)

       --ftp-pasv
	      (FTP) Use passive mode for the data conection.  Passive  is  the
	      internal	default behavior, but using this option can be used to
	      override a previous -P/-ftp-port option. (Added in 7.11.0)

	      If this option is used several times, the following  occurrences
	      make  no	difference.  Undoing  an enforced passive really isn't
	      doable but you must then instead enforce the  correct  -P/--ftp-
	      port again.

	      Passive mode means that curl will try the EPSV command first and
	      then PASV, unless --disable-epsv is used.

       --ftp-alternative-to-user <command>
	      (FTP) If authenticating with the USER and PASS  commands	fails,
	      send  this  command.   When  connecting  to  Tumbleweed's Secure
	      Transport server over FTPS using	a  client  certificate,	 using
	      "SITE  AUTH"  will tell the server to retrieve the username from
	      the certificate. (Added in 7.15.5)

       --ftp-skip-pasv-ip
	      (FTP) Tell curl to not use the IP address the server suggests in
	      its  response to curl's PASV command when curl connects the data
	      connection. Instead curl will re-use  the	 same  IP  address  it
	      already uses for the control connection. (Added in 7.14.2)

	      This  option has no effect if PORT, EPRT or EPSV is used instead
	      of PASV.

       --ftp-pret
	      (FTP) Tell curl to send a PRET command before PASV  (and	EPSV).
	      Certain  FTP  servers,  mainly drftpd, require this non-standard
	      command for directory listings as well as up  and	 downloads  in
	      PASV mode.  (Added in 7.20.x)

       --ssl  (FTP,  POP3,  IMAP, SMTP) Try to use SSL/TLS for the connection.
	      Reverts to a non-secure connection if the server doesn't support
	      SSL/TLS.	 See also --ftp-ssl-control and --ssl-reqd for differ-
	      ent levels of encryption required. (Added in 7.20.0)

	      This option was formerly known as --ftp-ssl  (Added  in  7.11.0)
	      and  that can still be used but will be removed in a future ver-
	      sion.

       --ftp-ssl-control
	      (FTP) Require SSL/TLS for the FTP	 login,	 clear	for  transfer.
	      Allows  secure  authentication, but non-encrypted data transfers

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	      for efficiency.  Fails the transfer if the server	 doesn't  sup-
	      port SSL/TLS.  (Added in 7.16.0)

       --ssl-reqd
	      (FTP,  POP3,  IMAP,  SMTP)  Require  SSL/TLS for the connection.
	      Terminates the connection if the server doesn't support SSL/TLS.
	      (Added in 7.20.0)

	      This  option  was	 formerly  known  as  --ftp-ssl-reqd (added in
	      7.15.5) and that can still be used but  will  be	removed	 in  a
	      future version.

       --ftp-ssl-ccc
	      (FTP)  Use  CCC  (Clear  Command Channel) Shuts down the SSL/TLS
	      layer after authenticating. The rest of the control channel com-
	      munication  will be unencrypted. This allows NAT routers to fol-
	      low the FTP transaction. The default mode is passive. See --ftp-
	      ssl-ccc-mode for other modes.  (Added in 7.16.1)

       --ftp-ssl-ccc-mode [active/passive]
	      (FTP)  Use  CCC  (Clear  Command Channel) Sets the CCC mode. The
	      passive mode will not initiate the shutdown,  but	 instead  wait
	      for the server to do it, and will not reply to the shutdown from
	      the server. The active mode initiates the shutdown and waits for
	      a reply from the server.	(Added in 7.16.2)

       -F/--form <name=content>
	      (HTTP)  This  lets curl emulate a filled-in form in which a user
	      has pressed the submit button. This causes  curl	to  POST  data
	      using the Content-Type multipart/form-data according to RFC2388.
	      This enables uploading of binary files etc. To force  the	 'con-
	      tent' part to be a file, prefix the file name with an @ sign. To
	      just get the content part from a file, prefix the file name with
	      the  symbol  <.  The  difference	between @ and < is then that @
	      makes a file get attached in the post as a  file	upload,	 while
	      the < makes a text field and just get the contents for that text
	      field from a file.

	      Example, to send your password file to the server, where	'pass-
	      word' is the name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be
	      the input:

	      curl -F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com

	      To read the file's content from stdin instead of a file,	use  -
	      where  the  file name should've been. This goes for both @ and <
	      constructs.

	      You can also  tell  curl	what  Content-Type  to	use  by	 using
	      'type=', in a manner similar to:

	      curl -F "web=@index.html;type=text/html" url.com

	      or

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	      curl -F "name=daniel;type=text/foo" url.com

	      You  can also explicitly change the name field of an file upload
	      part by setting filename=, like this:

	      curl -F "file=@localfile;filename=nameinpost" url.com

	      See further examples and details in the MANUAL.

	      This option can be used multiple times.

       --form-string <name=string>
	      (HTTP) Similar to --form except that the value  string  for  the
	      named  parameter	is used literally. Leading '@' and '<' charac-
	      ters, and the ';type=' string in the value have no special mean-
	      ing. Use this in preference to --form if there's any possibility
	      that the string value may accidentally trigger the  '@'  or  '<'
	      features of --form.

       -g/--globoff
	      This option switches off the "URL globbing parser". When you set
	      this option, you can specify URLs that contain the letters  {}[]
	      without  having them being interpreted by curl itself. Note that
	      these letters are not normal legal URL contents but they	should
	      be encoded according to the URI standard.

       -G/--get
	      When  used,  this	 option	 will  make  all  data	specified with
	      -d/--data or --data-binary to be used  in	 a  HTTP  GET  request
	      instead  of  the	POST request that otherwise would be used. The
	      data will be appended to the URL with a '?' separator.

	      If used in combination with -I, the POST data  will  instead  be
	      appended to the URL with a HEAD request.

	      If  this option is used several times, the following occurrences
	      make no difference. This is because undoing a GET	 doesn't  make
	      sense,  but  you	should	then  instead  enforce the alternative
	      method you prefer.

       -h/--help
	      Usage help.

       -H/--header <header>
	      (HTTP) Extra header to use when getting  a  web  page.  You  may
	      specify any number of extra headers. Note that if you should add
	      a custom header that has the same name as one  of	 the  internal
	      ones  curl  would	 use,  your externally set header will be used
	      instead of the internal one. This allows you to make even trick-
	      ier  stuff  than	curl would normally do. You should not replace
	      internally set  headers  without	knowing	 perfectly  well  what
	      you're  doing. Remove an internal header by giving a replacement
	      without content on the right  side  of  the  colon,  as  in:  -H
	      "Host:".

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	      curl  will  make	sure  that each header you add/replace is sent
	      with the proper end-of-line marker, you should thus not add that
	      as a part of the header content: do not add newlines or carriage
	      returns, they will only mess things up for you.

	      See also the -A/--user-agent and -e/--referer options.

	      This option can be used  multiple	 times	to  add/replace/remove
	      multiple headers.

       --hostpubmd5 <md5>
	      Pass  a  string  containing  32  hexadecimal  digits. The string
	      should be the 128 bit MD5 checksum of the remote	host's	public
	      key,  curl  will	refuse the connection with the host unless the
	      md5sums match. This option is only for SCP and  SFTP  transfers.
	      (Added in 7.17.1)

       --ignore-content-length
	      (HTTP)  Ignore  the  Content-Length header. This is particularly
	      useful for servers running Apache 1.x, which will report	incor-
	      rect Content-Length for files larger than 2 gigabytes.

       -i/--include
	      (HTTP)  Include  the  HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header
	      includes things like server-name, date of	 the  document,	 HTTP-
	      version and more...

       --interface <name>
	      Perform  an operation using a specified interface. You can enter
	      interface name, IP address or host name. An example  could  look
	      like:

	       curl --interface eth0:1 http://www.netscape.com/

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -I/--head
	      (HTTP/FTP/FILE) Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature
	      the  command  HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header
	      of a document. When used on a FTP or FILE	 file,	curl  displays
	      the file size and last modification time only.

       -j/--junk-session-cookies
	      (HTTP) When curl is told to read cookies from a given file, this
	      option will make it discard all  "session	 cookies".  This  will
	      basically	 have  the same effect as if a new session is started.
	      Typical browsers always discard  session	cookies	 when  they're
	      closed down.

       -J/--remote-header-name
	      (HTTP)  This option tells the -O/--remote-name option to use the
	      server-specified	 Content-Disposition   filename	  instead   of
	      extracting a filename from the URL.

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       -k/--insecure
	      (SSL)  This  option explicitly allows curl to perform "insecure"
	      SSL connections and transfers. All SSL connections are attempted
	      to  be  made secure by using the CA certificate bundle installed
	      by default. This makes  all  connections	considered  "insecure"
	      fail unless -k/--insecure is used.

	      See     this    online	resource    for	   further    details:
	      http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

       --keepalive-time <seconds>
	      This option sets the time a  connection  needs  to  remain  idle
	      before  sending keepalive probes and the time between individual
	      keepalive probes. It is currently effective on operating systems
	      offering	the  TCP_KEEPIDLE  and	TCP_KEEPINTVL  socket  options
	      (meaning Linux, recent AIX, HP-UX and more). This option has  no
	      effect if --no-keepalive is used. (Added in 7.18.0)

	      If  this option is used multiple times, the last occurrence sets
	      the amount.

       --key <key>
	      (SSL/SSH) Private key file name. Allows you to provide your pri-
	      vate key in this separate file.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --key-type <type>
	      (SSL) Private key file type. Specify which type your --key  pro-
	      vided  private  key  is. DER, PEM, and ENG are supported. If not
	      specified, PEM is assumed.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --krb <level>
	      (FTP)  Enable Kerberos authentication and use. The level must be
	      entered and should be one of 'clear', 'safe', 'confidential', or
	      'private'.  Should  you  use  a  level that is not one of these,
	      'private' will instead be used.

	      This option requires a library built with	 kerberos4  or	GSSAPI
	      (GSS-Negotiate)  support. This is not very common. Use -V/--ver-
	      sion to see if your curl supports it.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -K/--config <config file>
	      Specify  which config file to read curl arguments from. The con-
	      fig file is a text file in which command line arguments  can  be
	      written  which  then will be used as if they were written on the
	      actual command line. Options and their parameters must be speci-
	      fied  on	the  same  config  file line, separated by whitespace,
	      colon, the equals sign or any combination thereof (however,  the
	      preferred	 separator is the equals sign). If the parameter is to

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	      contain  whitespace,  the	 parameter  must  be  enclosed	within
	      quotes. Within double quotes, the following escape sequences are
	      available: \\, \", \t, \n, \r and \v. A backslash preceding  any
	      other letter is ignored. If the first column of a config line is
	      a '#' character, the rest of the line will be treated as a  com-
	      ment.  Only  write  one  option  per physical line in the config
	      file.

	      Specify the filename to -K/--config as '-' to make curl read the
	      file from stdin.

	      Note  that  to  be able to specify a URL in the config file, you
	      need to specify it using the --url option,  and  not  by	simply
	      writing  the  URL	 on its own line. So, it could look similar to
	      this:

	      url = "http://curl.haxx.se/docs/"

	      Long option names can optionally be given	 in  the  config  file
	      without the initial double dashes.

	      When curl is invoked, it always (unless -q is used) checks for a
	      default config file and uses it if  found.  The  default	config
	      file is checked for in the following places in this order:

	      1)  curl	tries  to find the "home dir": It first checks for the
	      CURL_HOME and then the HOME environment variables. Failing that,
	      it  uses getpwuid() on UNIX-like systems (which returns the home
	      dir given the current user in your system). On Windows, it  then
	      checks for the APPDATA variable, or as a last resort the '%USER-
	      PROFILE%\Application Data'.

	      2) On windows, if there is no _curlrc file in the home  dir,  it
	      checks for one in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On
	      UNIX-like systems, it will simply try to load .curlrc  from  the
	      determined home dir.

	      # --- Example file ---
	      # this is a comment
	      url = "curl.haxx.se"
	      output = "curlhere.html"
	      user-agent = "superagent/1.0"

	      # and fetch another URL too
	      url = "curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html"
	      -O
	      referer = "http://nowhereatall.com/"
	      # --- End of example file ---

	      This  option  can be used multiple times to load multiple config
	      files.

       --libcurl <file>
	      Append this option to any ordinary curl command  line,  and  you

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	      will  get	 a  libcurl-using source code written to the file that
	      does the equivalent of what your command-line operation does!

	      NOTE: this does not properly support -F and the sending of  mul-
	      tipart  formposts,  so in those cases the output program will be
	      missing necessary calls to curl_formadd(3), and possibly more.

	      If this option is used several times, the last given  file  name
	      will be used. (Added in 7.16.1)

       --limit-rate <speed>
	      Specify  the  maximum  transfer  rate you want curl to use. This
	      feature is useful if you have a limited pipe and you'd like your
	      transfer not to use your entire bandwidth.

	      The  given speed is measured in bytes/second, unless a suffix is
	      appended.	 Appending 'k' or 'K' will count the number  as	 kilo-
	      bytes,  'm'  or M' makes it megabytes, while 'g' or 'G' makes it
	      gigabytes. Examples: 200K, 3m and 1G.

	      The given rate is the average speed counted  during  the	entire
	      transfer. It means that curl might use higher transfer speeds in
	      short bursts, but over time it uses no more than the given rate.

	      If  you  also  use the -Y/--speed-limit option, that option will
	      take precedence and might cripple the rate-limiting slightly, to
	      help keeping the speed-limit logic working.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -l/--list-only
	      (FTP) When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces a	 name-
	      only  view.   Especially useful if you want to machine-parse the
	      contents of an FTP directory since  the  normal  directory  view
	      doesn't use a standard look or format.

	      This  option  causes  an	FTP NLST command to be sent.  Some FTP
	      servers list only files in their response to NLST; they  do  not
	      include subdirectories and symbolic links.

       --local-port <num>[-num]
	      Set a preferred number or range of local port numbers to use for
	      the connection(s).  Note that  port  numbers  by	nature	are  a
	      scarce resource that will be busy at times so setting this range
	      to something too narrow might cause unnecessary connection setup
	      failures. (Added in 7.15.2)

       -L/--location
	      (HTTP/HTTPS)  If	the server reports that the requested page has
	      moved to a different location (indicated with a Location: header
	      and  a  3XX  response code), this option will make curl redo the
	      request on the new place. If used together with -i/--include  or
	      -I/--head,  headers from all requested pages will be shown. When

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	      authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials  to  the
	      initial  host.  If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it
	      won't be able to intercept the user+password. See	 also  --loca-
	      tion-trusted  on how to change this. You can limit the amount of
	      redirects to follow by using the --max-redirs option.

	      When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain  GET
	      (for example POST or PUT), it will do the following request with
	      a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the response
	      code  was	 any  other  3xx code, curl will re-send the following
	      request using the same unmodified method.

       --location-trusted
	      (HTTP/HTTPS) Like -L/--location, but will allow sending the name
	      +	 password to all hosts that the site may redirect to. This may
	      or may not introduce a security breach if the site redirects you
	      to  a  site to which you'll send your authentication info (which
	      is plaintext in the case of HTTP Basic authentication).

       --mail-rcpt <address>
	      (SMTP) Specify a single address that the given mail  should  get
	      sent  to. This option can be used multiple times to specify many
	      recipients.

	      (Added in 7.20.0)

       --mail-from <address>
	      (SMTP) Specify a single address that the given mail  should  get
	      sent from.

	      (Added in 7.20.0)

       --max-filesize <bytes>
	      Specify  the  maximum  size (in bytes) of a file to download. If
	      the file requested is larger than this value, the transfer  will
	      not start and curl will return with exit code 63.

	      NOTE:  The  file size is not always known prior to download, and
	      for such files this option has no effect even if the file trans-
	      fer  ends	 up  being larger than this given limit. This concerns
	      both FTP and HTTP transfers.

       -m/--max-time <seconds>
	      Maximum time in seconds that you allow the  whole	 operation  to
	      take.   This is useful for preventing your batch jobs from hang-
	      ing for hours due to slow networks or  links  going  down.   See
	      also the --connect-timeout option.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -M/--manual
	      Manual. Display the huge help text.

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       -n/--netrc
	      Makes curl scan the .netrc  (_netrc  on  Windows)	 file  in  the
	      user's home directory for login name and password. This is typi-
	      cally used for FTP on UNIX. If used with HTTP, curl will	enable
	      user  authentication.  See netrc(4) or ftp(1) for details on the
	      file format. Curl will not complain if that  file	 doesn't  have
	      the  right permissions (it should not be either world- or group-
	      readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to  find  the
	      home directory.

	      A	 quick	and  very  simple  example of how to setup a .netrc to
	      allow curl to FTP to the machine host.domain.com with user  name
	      'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to:

	      machine host.domain.com login myself password secret

       --netrc-optional
	      Very  similar to --netrc, but this option makes the .netrc usage
	      optional and not mandatory as the --netrc option does.

       --negotiate
	      (HTTP) Enables GSS-Negotiate authentication.  The	 GSS-Negotiate
	      method was designed by Microsoft and is used in their web appli-
	      cations. It is  primarily	 meant	as  a  support	for  Kerberos5
	      authentication but may be also used along with another authenti-
	      cation method. For more information see IETF draft draft-brezak-
	      spnego-http-04.txt.

	      If  you  want to enable Negotiate for your proxy authentication,
	      then use --proxy-negotiate.

	      This option requires a library built with GSSAPI	support.  This
	      is not very common. Use -V/--version to see if your version sup-
	      ports GSS-Negotiate.

	      When using this option, you must also provide a  fake  -u/--user
	      option  to  activate the authentication code properly. Sending a
	      '-u :' is enough as the user  name  and  password	 from  the  -u
	      option aren't actually used.

	      If  this option is used several times, the following occurrences
	      make no difference.

       -N/--no-buffer
	      Disables the buffering of the output stream. In normal work sit-
	      uations,	curl  will  use a standard buffered output stream that
	      will have the effect that it will output the data in chunks, not
	      necessarily  exactly  when  the data arrives.  Using this option
	      will disable that buffering.

	      Note that this is the negated option name	 documented.  You  can
	      thus use --buffer to enforce the buffering.

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       --no-keepalive
	      Disables the use of keepalive messages on the TCP connection, as
	      by default curl enables them.

	      Note that this is the negated option name	 documented.  You  can
	      thus use --keepalive to enforce keepalive.

       --no-sessionid
	      (SSL)  Disable curl's use of SSL session-ID caching.  By default
	      all transfers are done using the cache. Note that while  nothing
	      should  ever  get	 hurt  by attempting to reuse SSL session-IDs,
	      there seem to be broken SSL implementations in the wild that may
	      require  you to disable this in order for you to succeed. (Added
	      in 7.16.0)

	      Note that this is the negated option name	 documented.  You  can
	      thus use --sessionid to enforce session-ID caching.

       --noproxy <no-proxy-list>
	      Comma-separated  list  of hosts which do not use a proxy, if one
	      is specified.  The only wildcard is a single * character,	 which
	      matches all hosts, and effectively disables the proxy. Each name
	      in this list is matched as either a domain  which	 contains  the
	      hostname,	 or  the hostname itself. For example, local.com would
	      match  local.com,	 local.com:80,	and  www.local.com,  but   not
	      www.notlocal.com.	 (Added in 7.19.4).

       --ntlm (HTTP)  Enables  NTLM  authentication.  The  NTLM authentication
	      method was designed by Microsoft and is used by IIS web servers.
	      It  is a proprietary protocol, reverse-engineered by clever peo-
	      ple and implemented in curl based on their efforts. This kind of
	      behavior	should	not be endorsed, you should encourage everyone
	      who uses NTLM to switch to a public and  documented  authentica-
	      tion method instead, such as Digest.

	      If  you  want to enable NTLM for your proxy authentication, then
	      use --proxy-ntlm.

	      This option requires a  library  built  with  SSL	 support.  Use
	      -V/--version to see if your curl supports NTLM.

	      If  this option is used several times, the following occurrences
	      make no difference.

       -o/--output <file>
	      Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or
	      []  to  fetch  multiple documents, you can use '#' followed by a
	      number in the <file> specifier. That variable will  be  replaced
	      with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in:

		curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"

	      or use several variables like:

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		curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"

	      You  may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you
	      have.

	      See also the --create-dirs option to create the  local  directo-
	      ries  dynamically.  Specifying the output as '-' (a single dash)
	      will force the output to be done to stdout.

       -O/--remote-name
	      Write output to a local file named like the remote file we  get.
	      (Only  the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut
	      off.)

	      The remote file name to use for saving  is  extracted  from  the
	      given URL, nothing else.

	      You  may use this option as many times as the number of URLs you
	      have.

       --remote-name-all
	      This option changes the default action for all given URLs to  be
	      dealt  with as if -O/--remote-name were used for each one. So if
	      you want to disable that for a specific URL after --remote-name-
	      all  has	been  used,  you  must use "-o -" or --no-remote-name.
	      (Added in 7.19.0)

       --pass <phrase>
	      (SSL/SSH) Passphrase for the private key

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --post301
	      Tells  curl  to  respect	RFC  2616/10.3.2  and not convert POST
	      requests into GET requests when following a 301 redirection. The
	      non-RFC  behaviour  is  ubiquitous in web browsers, so curl does
	      the conversion by default to maintain  consistency.  However,  a
	      server may require a POST to remain a POST after such a redirec-
	      tion. This option is meaningful only  when  using	 -L/--location
	      (Added in 7.17.1)

       --post302
	      Tells  curl  to  respect	RFC  2616/10.3.2  and not convert POST
	      requests into GET requests when following a 302 redirection. The
	      non-RFC  behaviour  is  ubiquitous in web browsers, so curl does
	      the conversion by default to maintain  consistency.  However,  a
	      server may require a POST to remain a POST after such a redirec-
	      tion. This option is meaningful only  when  using	 -L/--location
	      (Added in 7.19.1)

       --proto <protocols>
	      Tells   curl  to	use  the  listed  protocols  for  its  initial
	      retrieval. Protocols are evaluated left to right, are comma sep-
	      arated,  and  are	 each  a  protocol  name  or 'all', optionally

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	      prefixed by zero or more modifiers. Available modifiers are:

	      +	 Permit this protocol in addition to protocols already permit-
		 ted (this is the default if no modifier is used).

	      -	 Deny  this  protocol,	removing it from the list of protocols
		 already permitted.

	      =	 Permit only this protocol (ignoring the list already  permit-
		 ted),	though	subject	 to  later  modification by subsequent
		 entries in the comma separated list.

	      For example:

	      --proto -ftps  uses the default protocols, but disables ftps

	      --proto -all,https,+http
			     only enables http and https

	      --proto =http,https
			     also only enables http and https

	      Unknown protocols produce a  warning.  This  allows  scripts  to
	      safely  rely on being able to disable potentially dangerous pro-
	      tocols, without relying upon support  for	 that  protocol	 being
	      built into curl to avoid an error.

	      This option can be used multiple times, in which case the effect
	      is the same as concatenating the protocols into one instance  of
	      the option.

	      (Added in 7.20.2)

       --proto-redir <protocols>
	      Tells  curl  to  use  the listed protocols after a redirect. See
	      --proto for how protocols are represented.

	      (Added in 7.20.2)

       --proxy-anyauth
	      Tells curl to pick a suitable authentication method when	commu-
	      nicating	with  the  given  proxy.  This	might  cause  an extra
	      request/response round-trip. (Added in 7.13.2)

       --proxy-basic
	      Tells curl to use HTTP Basic authentication  when	 communicating
	      with the given proxy. Use --basic for enabling HTTP Basic with a
	      remote host. Basic is the	 default  authentication  method  curl
	      uses with proxies.

       --proxy-digest
	      Tells  curl to use HTTP Digest authentication when communicating
	      with the given proxy. Use --digest for enabling HTTP Digest with
	      a remote host.

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       --proxy-negotiate
	      Tells curl to use HTTP Negotiate authentication when communicat-
	      ing with the given proxy.	 Use  --negotiate  for	enabling  HTTP
	      Negotiate with a remote host. (Added in 7.17.1)

       --proxy-ntlm
	      Tells  curl  to  use HTTP NTLM authentication when communicating
	      with the given proxy. Use --ntlm for enabling NTLM with a remote
	      host.

       --proxy1.0 <proxyhost[:port]>
	      Use  the	specified  HTTP	 1.0  proxy. If the port number is not
	      specified, it is assumed at port 1080.

	      The only difference between  this	 and  the  HTTP	 proxy	option
	      (-x/--proxy),  is that attempts to use CONNECT through the proxy
	      will specify an HTTP 1.0 protocol instead of  the	 default  HTTP
	      1.1.

       -p/--proxytunnel
	      When  an HTTP proxy is used (-x/--proxy), this option will cause
	      non-HTTP protocols  to  attempt  to  tunnel  through  the	 proxy
	      instead  of merely using it to do HTTP-like operations. The tun-
	      nel approach is made with the HTTP  proxy	 CONNECT  request  and
	      requires that the proxy allows direct connect to the remote port
	      number curl wants to tunnel through to.

       --pubkey <key>
	      (SSH) Public key file name. Allows you to	 provide  your	public
	      key in this separate file.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -P/--ftp-port <address>
	      (FTP) Reverses the default initiator/listener  roles  when  con-
	      necting  with  FTP.  This	 switch makes curl use active mode. In
	      practice, curl then tells the server  to	connect	 back  to  the
	      client's specified address and port, while passive mode asks the
	      server to setup an IP address and port for  it  to  connect  to.
	      <address> should be one of:

	      interface
		     i.e  "eth0"  to  specify which interface's IP address you
		     want to use (Unix only)

	      IP address
		     i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify the exact IP address

	      host name
		     i.e "my.host.domain" to specify the machine

	      -	     make curl pick the same IP address that is	 already  used
		     for the control connection

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       If  this	 option is used several times, the last one will be used. Dis-
       able the use of PORT with --ftp-pasv. Disable the attempt  to  use  the
       EPRT  command  instead  of PORT by using --disable-eprt. EPRT is really
       PORT++.

       Starting in 7.19.5, you can append ":[start]-[end]" to the right of the
       address,	 to tell curl what TCP port range to use. That means you spec-
       ify a port range, from a lower to a  higher  number.  A	single	number
       works  as well, but do note that it increases the risk of failure since
       the port may not be available.

       -q     If used as the first parameter on the command line,  the	curlrc
	      config  file  will not be read and used. See the -K/--config for
	      details on the default config file search path.

       -Q/--quote <command>
	      (FTP/SFTP) Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP  or  SFTP
	      server.  Quote commands are sent BEFORE the transfer takes place
	      (just after the initial PWD command in an FTP  transfer,	to  be
	      exact). To make commands take place after a successful transfer,
	      prefix them with a dash '-'.  To make  commands  be  sent	 after
	      libcurl  has  changed  the  working  directory,  just before the
	      transfer command(s), prefix the command with a '+' (this is only
	      supported	 for  FTP). You may specify any number of commands. If
	      the server returns failure for one of the commands,  the	entire
	      operation	 will  be aborted. You must send syntactically correct
	      FTP commands as RFC959 defines to FTP servers,  or  one  of  the
	      commands	listed below to SFTP servers.  This option can be used
	      multiple times.

	      SFTP is a binary protocol. Unlike for  FTP,  libcurl  interprets
	      SFTP  quote commands before sending them to the server.  Follow-
	      ing is the list of all supported SFTP quote commands:

	      chgrp group file
		     The chgrp command sets the group ID of the file named  by
		     the  file	operand to the group ID specified by the group
		     operand. The group operand is a decimal integer group ID.

	      chmod mode file
		     The  chmod	 command  modifies  the	 file mode bits of the
		     specified file. The mode operand is an octal integer mode
		     number.

	      chown user file
		     The chown command sets the owner of the file named by the
		     file operand  to  the  user  ID  specified	 by  the  user
		     operand. The user operand is a decimal integer user ID.

	      ln source_file target_file
		     The ln and symlink commands create a symbolic link at the
		     target_file location pointing to  the  source_file	 loca-
		     tion.

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	      mkdir directory_name
		     The  mkdir	 command  creates  the	directory named by the
		     directory_name operand.

	      pwd    The pwd command returns the absolute pathname of the cur-
		     rent working directory.

	      rename source target
		     The rename command renames the file or directory named by
		     the source operand to the destination path named  by  the
		     target operand.

	      rm file
		     The  rm  command  removes	the file specified by the file
		     operand.

	      rmdir directory
		     The rmdir command removes the directory  entry  specified
		     by the directory operand, provided it is empty.

	      symlink source_file target_file
		     See ln.

       --random-file <file>
	      (SSL) Specify the path name to file containing what will be con-
	      sidered as random data. The data is  used	 to  seed  the	random
	      engine for SSL connections.  See also the --egd-file option.

       -r/--range <range>
	      (HTTP/FTP/SFTP/FILE)  Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial docu-
	      ment) from a HTTP/1.1, FTP or  SFTP  server  or  a  local	 FILE.
	      Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.

	      0-499	specifies the first 500 bytes

	      500-999	specifies the second 500 bytes

	      -500	specifies the last 500 bytes

	      9500-	specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward

	      0-0,-1	specifies the first and last byte only(*)(H)

	      500-700,600-799
			specifies 300 bytes from offset 500(H)

	      100-199,500-599
			specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*)(H)

       (*)  =  NOTE  that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart
       response!

       Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in the 'start' and 'stop'	fields
       of  the 'start-stop' range syntax. If a non-digit character is given in

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       the range, the server's response will be unspecified, depending on  the
       server's configuration.

       You  should  also  be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this
       feature enabled, so that when  you  attempt  to	get  a	range,	you'll
       instead get the whole document.

       FTP  and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syn-
       tax (optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP  use  depends  on
       the extended FTP command SIZE.

       If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --raw  When  used, it disables all internal HTTP decoding of content or
	      transfer encodings and instead makes them passed	on  unaltered,
	      raw. (Added in 7.16.2)

       -R/--remote-time
	      When  used,  this	 will  make  libcurl attempt to figure out the
	      timestamp of the remote file, and if that is available make  the
	      local file get that same timestamp.

       --retry <num>
	      If  a  transient	error is returned when curl tries to perform a
	      transfer, it will retry this number of times before  giving  up.
	      Setting  the  number to 0 makes curl do no retries (which is the
	      default). Transient error means either: a timeout,  an  FTP  4xx
	      response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.

	      When  curl  is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one
	      second and then for all forthcoming retries it will  double  the
	      waiting  time until it reaches 10 minutes which then will be the
	      delay between the rest of the retries.  By  using	 --retry-delay
	      you   disable  this  exponential	backoff	 algorithm.  See  also
	      --retry-max-time to limit the total time	allowed	 for  retries.
	      (Added in 7.12.3)

	      If  this	option	is  used  multiple  times, the last occurrence
	      decide the amount.

       --retry-delay <seconds>
	      Make curl sleep this amount of time before  each	retry  when  a
	      transfer	has  failed  with  a  transient	 error (it changes the
	      default backoff time algorithm between retries). This option  is
	      only  interesting if --retry is also used. Setting this delay to
	      zero will make curl use the default  backoff  time.   (Added  in
	      7.12.3)

	      If  this	option	is  used  multiple  times, the last occurrence
	      determines the amount.

       --retry-max-time <seconds>
	      The retry timer is reset	before	the  first  transfer  attempt.
	      Retries will be done as usual (see --retry) as long as the timer

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	      hasn't reached this given limit. Notice that if the timer hasn't
	      reached  the  limit, the request will be made and while perform-
	      ing, it may take longer than this given time period. To limit  a
	      single  request's	 maximum  time,	 use  -m/--max-time.  Set this
	      option to zero to not timeout retries. (Added in 7.12.3)

	      If this option is	 used  multiple	 times,	 the  last  occurrence
	      determines the amount.

       -s/--silent
	      Silent  or  quiet	 mode. Don't show progress meter or error mes-
	      sages.  Makes Curl mute.

       -S/--show-error
	      When used with -s it makes curl show  an	error  message	if  it
	      fails.

       --socks4 <host[:port]>
	      Use the specified SOCKS4 proxy. If the port number is not speci-
	      fied, it is assumed at port 1080. (Added in 7.15.2)

	      This option overrides any previous use of	 -x/--proxy,  as  they
	      are mutually exclusive.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --socks4a <host[:port]>
	      Use the specified SOCKS4a proxy. If the port number is not spec-
	      ified, it is assumed at port 1080. (Added in 7.18.0)

	      This  option  overrides  any previous use of -x/--proxy, as they
	      are mutually exclusive.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --socks5-hostname <host[:port]>
	      Use  the	specified  SOCKS5 proxy (and let the proxy resolve the
	      host name). If the port number is not specified, it  is  assumed
	      at port 1080. (Added in 7.18.0)

	      This  option  overrides  any previous use of -x/--proxy, as they
	      are mutually exclusive.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
	      (This  option  was  previously  wrongly  documented  and used as
	      --socks without the number appended.)

       --socks5 <host[:port]>
	      Use the specified SOCKS5 proxy  -	 but  resolve  the  host  name
	      locally.	If  the port number is not specified, it is assumed at
	      port 1080.

	      This option overrides any previous use of	 -x/--proxy,  as  they
	      are mutually exclusive.

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	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
	      (This option was	previously  wrongly  documented	 and  used  as
	      --socks without the number appended.)

	      This  option (as well as --socks4) does not work with IPV6, FTPS
	      or LDAP.

       --socks5-gssapi-service <servicename>
	      The default service name for a socks server is rcmd/server-fqdn.
	      This option allows you to change it.

	      Examples:
	       --socks5	 proxy-name  --socks5-gssapi-service sockd   would use
	      sockd/proxy-name
	       --socks5	 proxy-name  --socks5-gssapi-service   sockd/real-name
	      would  use  sockd/real-name  for cases where the proxy-name does
	      not match the princpal name.
	       (Added in 7.19.4).

       --socks5-gssapi-nec
	      As part of the gssapi negotiation a protection mode  is  negoti-
	      ated.  The  rfc1961  says	 in  section 4.3/4.4 it should be pro-
	      tected, but the NEC  reference  implementation  does  not.   The
	      option  --socks5-gssapi-nec  allows  the unprotected exchange of
	      the protection mode negotiation. (Added in 7.19.4).

       --stderr <file>
	      Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead.  If
	      the  file	 name is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout.
	      This option has no point when you're using a shell  with	decent
	      redirecting capabilities.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --tcp-nodelay
	      Turn on the TCP_NODELAY option. See the curl_easy_setopt(3)  man
	      page for details about this option. (Added in 7.11.2)

       -t/--telnet-option <OPT=val>
	      Pass options to the telnet protocol. Supported options are:

	      TTYPE=<term> Sets the terminal type.

	      XDISPLOC=<X display> Sets the X display location.

	      NEW_ENV=<var,val> Sets an environment variable.

       --tftp-blksize <value>
	      (TFTP) Set TFTP BLKSIZE option (must be >512). This is the block
	      size that curl will try to use when tranferring data to or  from
	      a TFTP server. By default 512 bytes will be used.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

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	      (Added in 7.20.0)

       -T/--upload-file <file>
	      This transfers the specified local file to the  remote  URL.  If
	      there is no file part in the specified URL, Curl will append the
	      local file name. NOTE that you must use a trailing / on the last
	      directory	 to really prove to Curl that there is no file name or
	      curl will think that your last directory name is the remote file
	      name to use. That will most likely cause the upload operation to
	      fail. If this is used on a HTTP(S) server, the PUT command  will
	      be used.

	      Use  the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a
	      given file.  Alternately, the file name "."  (a  single  period)
	      may  be  specified  instead  of "-" to use stdin in non-blocking
	      mode to  allow  reading  server  output  while  stdin  is	 being
	      uploaded.

	      You can specify one -T for each URL on the command line. Each -T
	      + URL pair specifies what to upload and to where. curl also sup-
	      ports "globbing" of the -T argument, meaning that you can upload
	      multiple files to a single URL by using the  same	 URL  globbing
	      style supported in the URL, like this:

	      curl -T "{file1,file2}" http://www.uploadtothissite.com

	      or even

	      curl -T "img[1-1000].png" ftp://ftp.picturemania.com/upload/

       --trace <file>
	      Enables  a  full	trace  dump of all incoming and outgoing data,
	      including descriptive information, to the given output file. Use
	      "-" as filename to have the output sent to stdout.

	      This  option overrides previous uses of -v/--verbose or --trace-
	      ascii.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --trace-ascii <file>
	      Enables  a  full	trace  dump of all incoming and outgoing data,
	      including descriptive information, to the given output file. Use
	      "-" as filename to have the output sent to stdout.

	      This is very similar to --trace, but leaves out the hex part and
	      only shows the ASCII part of the dump. It makes  smaller	output
	      that might be easier to read for untrained humans.

	      This  option overrides previous uses of -v/--verbose or --trace.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

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       --trace-time
	      Prepends	a  time	 stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl
	      displays.	 (Added in 7.14.0)

       -u/--user <user:password>
	      Specify the user name and password to use for server authentica-
	      tion. Overrides -n/--netrc and --netrc-optional.

	      If  you  just give the user name (without entering a colon) curl
	      will prompt for a password.

	      If you use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do  NTLM  authentica-
	      tion,  you  can force curl to pick up the user name and password
	      from your environment by simply specifying a single  colon  with
	      this option: "-u :".

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -U/--proxy-user <user:password>
	      Specify the user name and password to use for proxy  authentica-
	      tion.

	      If  you  use an SSPI-enabled curl binary and do NTLM authentica-
	      tion, you can force curl to pick up the user name	 and  password
	      from  your  environment by simply specifying a single colon with
	      this option: "-U :".

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --url <URL>
	      Specify  a  URL  to  fetch. This option is mostly handy when you
	      want to specify URL(s) in a config file.

	      This option may be used any number of times.  To	control	 where
	      this URL is written, use the -o/--output or the -O/--remote-name
	      options.

       -v/--verbose
	      Makes the fetching more  verbose/talkative.  Mostly  useful  for
	      debugging.  A line starting with '>' means "header data" sent by
	      curl, '<' means "header data" received by curl that is hidden in
	      normal cases, and a line starting with '*' means additional info
	      provided by curl.

	      Note  that  if  you  only	 want  HTTP  headers  in  the  output,
	      -i/--include might be the option you're looking for.

	      If  you think this option still doesn't give you enough details,
	      consider using --trace or --trace-ascii instead.

	      This option overrides previous uses of --trace-ascii or --trace.

	      Use -S/--silent to make curl quiet.

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       -V/--version
	      Displays information about curl and the libcurl version it uses.

	      The first line includes the full version of  curl,  libcurl  and
	      other 3rd party libraries linked with the executable.

	      The  second  line (starts with "Protocols:") shows all protocols
	      that libcurl reports to support.

	      The third line (starts with "Features:") shows specific features
	      libcurl reports to offer. Available features include:

	      IPv6   You can use IPv6 with this.

	      krb4   Krb4 for FTP is supported.

	      SSL    HTTPS and FTPS are supported.

	      libz   Automatic	decompression of compressed files over HTTP is
		     supported.

	      NTLM   NTLM authentication is supported.

	      GSS-Negotiate
		     Negotiate authentication and krb5 for FTP is supported.

	      Debug  This curl uses a libcurl built with Debug.	 This  enables
		     more  error-tracking  and memory debugging etc. For curl-
		     developers only!

	      AsynchDNS
		     This curl uses asynchronous name resolves.

	      SPNEGO SPNEGO Negotiate authentication is supported.

	      Largefile
		     This curl supports transfers of large files, files larger
		     than 2GB.

	      IDN    This curl supports IDN - international domain names.

	      SSPI   SSPI  is  supported. If you use NTLM and set a blank user
		     name, curl will authenticate with your current  user  and
		     password.

       -w/--write-out <format>
	      Defines what to display on stdout after a completed and success-
	      ful operation. The format is a string  that  may	contain	 plain
	      text mixed with any number of variables. The string can be spec-
	      ified as "string", to get read from a particular file you	 spec-
	      ify  it  "@filename"  and	 to  tell curl to read the format from
	      stdin you write "@-".

	      The variables present in the output format will  be  substituted

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	      by  the  value or text that curl thinks fit, as described below.
	      All variables are specified as %{variable_name} and to output  a
	      normal  % you just write them as %%. You can output a newline by
	      using \n, a carriage return with \r and a tab space with \t.

	      NOTE: The %-symbol is a special symbol in the win32-environment,
	      where  all  occurrences  of  %  must  be doubled when using this
	      option.

	      The variables available at this point are:

	      url_effective  The URL that was fetched last. This is most mean-
			     ingful  if	 you've	 told curl to follow location:
			     headers.

	      http_code	     The numerical response code that was found in the
			     last  retrieved  HTTP(S)  or  FTP(s) transfer. In
			     7.18.2 the alias response_code was added to  show
			     the same info.

	      http_connect   The  numerical  code  that	 was found in the last
			     response  (from  a	 proxy)	 to  a	curl   CONNECT
			     request. (Added in 7.12.4)

	      time_total     The  total time, in seconds, that the full opera-
			     tion lasted. The time will be displayed with mil-
			     lisecond resolution.

	      time_namelookup
			     The  time,	 in  seconds,  it  took from the start
			     until the name resolving was completed.

	      time_connect   The time, in seconds,  it	took  from  the	 start
			     until  the	 TCP  connect  to  the remote host (or
			     proxy) was completed.

	      time_appconnect
			     The time, in seconds,  it	took  from  the	 start
			     until  the	 SSL/SSH/etc  connect/handshake to the
			     remote host was completed. (Added in 7.19.0)

	      time_pretransfer
			     The time, in seconds,  it	took  from  the	 start
			     until  the file transfer was just about to begin.
			     This includes all pre-transfer commands and nego-
			     tiations that are specific to the particular pro-
			     tocol(s) involved.

	      time_redirect  The time, in seconds, it took for all redirection
			     steps  include  name lookup, connect, pretransfer
			     and transfer before  the  final  transaction  was
			     started.  time_redirect shows the complete execu-
			     tion time for multiple  redirections.  (Added  in
			     7.12.3)

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	      time_starttransfer
			     The  time,	 in  seconds,  it  took from the start
			     until the first byte was just about to be	trans-
			     ferred.  This  includes time_pretransfer and also
			     the time  the  server  needed  to	calculate  the
			     result.

	      size_download  The total amount of bytes that were downloaded.

	      size_upload    The total amount of bytes that were uploaded.

	      size_header    The total amount of bytes of the downloaded head-
			     ers.

	      size_request   The total amount of bytes that were sent  in  the
			     HTTP request.

	      speed_download The average download speed that curl measured for
			     the complete download. Bytes per second.

	      speed_upload   The average upload speed that curl	 measured  for
			     the complete upload. Bytes per second.

	      content_type   The  Content-Type	of  the requested document, if
			     there was any.

	      num_connects   Number of new connects made in the recent	trans-
			     fer. (Added in 7.12.3)

	      num_redirects  Number  of	 redirects  that  were followed in the
			     request. (Added in 7.12.3)

	      redirect_url   When a HTTP request was made without -L to follow
			     redirects, this variable will show the actual URL
			     a redirect would take you to. (Added in 7.18.2)

	      ftp_entry_path The initial path libcurl ended up in when logging
			     on to the remote FTP server. (Added in 7.15.4)

	      ssl_verify_result
			     The  result of the SSL peer certificate verifica-
			     tion that was requested. 0 means the verification
			     was successful. (Added in 7.19.0)

       If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>
	      Use  the	specified HTTP proxy. If the port number is not speci-
	      fied, it is assumed at port 1080.

	      This option overrides existing environment  variables  that  set
	      the  proxy  to use. If there's an environment variable setting a
	      proxy, you can set proxy to "" to override it.

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	      Note that all operations that are performed over	a  HTTP	 proxy
	      will  transparently  be converted to HTTP. It means that certain
	      protocol specific operations might not be available. This is not
	      the  case	 if you can tunnel through the proxy, as done with the
	      -p/--proxytunnel option.

	      Starting with 7.14.1, the proxy host can be specified the	 exact
	      same  way as the proxy environment variables, including the pro-
	      tocol prefix (http://) and the embedded user + password.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -X/--request <command>
	      (HTTP) Specifies a custom request method to use when communicat-
	      ing with the HTTP server.	 The specified request	will  be  used
	      instead  of  the	method otherwise used (which defaults to GET).
	      Read the HTTP 1.1 specification for  details  and	 explanations.
	      Common  additional  HTTP	requests  include  PUT and DELETE, but
	      related technologies like WebDAV offers PROPFIND, COPY, MOVE and
	      more.

	      (FTP) Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when
	      doing file lists with FTP.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -y/--speed-time <time>
	      If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during
	      a speed-time period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is
	      used, the default speed-limit will be 1 unless set with -Y.

	      This  option  controls  transfers	 and thus will not affect slow
	      connects etc. If this is a concern for you, try  the  --connect-
	      timeout option.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -Y/--speed-limit <speed>
	      If a download is slower than this given speed (in bytes per sec-
	      ond)  for	 speed-time seconds it gets aborted. speed-time is set
	      with -y and is 30 if not set.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -z/--time-cond <date expression>
	      (HTTP/FTP)  Request a file that has been modified later than the
	      given time and date, or one that has been modified  before  that
	      time. The date expression can be all sorts of date strings or if
	      it doesn't match any internal ones, it tries  to	get  the  time
	      from  a  given  file  name  instead! See the curl_getdate(3) man
	      pages for date expression details.

	      Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make it request for
	      a	 document that is older than the given date/time, default is a

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	      document that is newer than the specified date/time.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       --max-redirs <num>
	      Set   maximum   number  of  redirection-followings  allowed.  If
	      -L/--location is used, this option can be used to	 prevent  curl
	      from following redirections "in absurdum". By default, the limit
	      is set to 50 redirections. Set this option to -1 to make it lim-
	      itless.

	      If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.

       -0/--http1.0
	      (HTTP) Forces curl to issue its requests using HTTP 1.0  instead
	      of using its internally preferred: HTTP 1.1.

       -1/--tlsv1
	      (SSL)  Forces  curl to use TLS version 1 when negotiating with a
	      remote TLS server.

       -2/--sslv2
	      (SSL) Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when negotiating  with  a
	      remote SSL server.

       -3/--sslv3
	      (SSL)  Forces  curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiating with a
	      remote SSL server.

       -4/--ipv4
	      If libcurl is capable of resolving an  address  to  multiple  IP
	      versions	(which it is if it is IPv6-capable), this option tells
	      libcurl to resolve names to IPv4 addresses only.

       -6/--ipv6
	      If libcurl is capable of resolving an  address  to  multiple  IP
	      versions	(which it is if it is IPv6-capable), this option tells
	      libcurl to resolve names to IPv6 addresses only.

       -#/--progress-bar
	      Make curl display progress information as a progress bar instead
	      of the default statistics.

FILES
       ~/.curlrc
	      Default config file, see -K/--config for details.

ENVIRONMENT
       The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case.
       The lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it
       is only available in lower case.

       http_proxy [protocol://]<host>[:port]
	      Sets the proxy server to use for HTTP.

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       HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
	      Sets the proxy server to use for HTTPS.

       FTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
	      Sets the proxy server to use for FTP.

       ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]
	      Sets  the	 proxy	server to use if no protocol-specific proxy is
	      set.

       NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>
	      list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy.  If  set
	      to a asterisk '*' only, it matches all hosts.

EXIT CODES
       There  are  a  bunch  of	 different error codes and their corresponding
       error messages that may appear during bad conditions. At	 the  time  of
       this writing, the exit codes are:

       1      Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no support for this
	      protocol.

       2      Failed to initialize.

       3      URL malformed. The syntax was not correct.

       5      Couldn't resolve proxy.  The  given  proxy  host	could  not  be
	      resolved.

       6      Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was not resolved.

       7      Failed to connect to host.

       8      FTP  weird  server  reply.  The  server  sent data curl couldn't
	      parse.

       9      FTP access denied. The server denied login or denied  access  to
	      the  particular  resource or directory you wanted to reach. Most
	      often you tried to change to a directory that doesn't  exist  on
	      the server.

       11     FTP  weird PASS reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the
	      PASS request.

       13     FTP weird PASV reply, Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to  the
	      PASV request.

       14     FTP  weird  227  format.	Curl  couldn't	parse the 227-line the
	      server sent.

       15     FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we got  in  the
	      227-line.

       17     FTP  couldn't  set  binary.  Couldn't  change transfer method to

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	      binary.

       18     Partial file. Only a part of the file was transferred.

       19     FTP couldn't download/access the given file, the RETR (or	 simi-
	      lar) command failed.

       21     FTP quote error. A quote command returned error from the server.

       22     HTTP page not retrieved. The requested  url  was	not  found  or
	      returned	another	 error	with  the HTTP error code being 400 or
	      above. This return code only appears if -f/--fail is used.

       23     Write error. Curl couldn't write data to a local	filesystem  or
	      similar.

       25     FTP  couldn't  STOR  file. The server denied the STOR operation,
	      used for FTP uploading.

       26     Read error. Various reading problems.

       27     Out of memory. A memory allocation request failed.

       28     Operation timeout. The specified	time-out  period  was  reached
	      according to the conditions.

       30     FTP  PORT	 failed.  The PORT command failed. Not all FTP servers
	      support the PORT	command,  try  doing  a	 transfer  using  PASV
	      instead!

       31     FTP  couldn't use REST. The REST command failed. This command is
	      used for resumed FTP transfers.

       33     HTTP range error. The range "command" didn't work.

       34     HTTP post error. Internal post-request generation error.

       35     SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.

       36     FTP bad download resume. Couldn't continue  an  earlier  aborted
	      download.

       37     FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file. Permissions?

       38     LDAP cannot bind. LDAP bind operation failed.

       39     LDAP search failed.

       41     Function not found. A required LDAP function was not found.

       42     Aborted by callback. An application told curl to abort the oper-
	      ation.

       43     Internal error. A function was called with a bad parameter.

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       45     Interface error. A specified outgoing  interface	could  not  be
	      used.

       47     Too many redirects. When following redirects, curl hit the maxi-
	      mum amount.

       48     Unknown TELNET option specified.

       49     Malformed telnet option.

       51     The peer's SSL certificate or SSH MD5 fingerprint was not ok.

       52     The server didn't reply anything, which here  is	considered  an
	      error.

       53     SSL crypto engine not found.

       54     Cannot set SSL crypto engine as default.

       55     Failed sending network data.

       56     Failure in receiving network data.

       58     Problem with the local certificate.

       59     Couldn't use specified SSL cipher.

       60     Peer  certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certifi-
	      cates.

       61     Unrecognized transfer encoding.

       62     Invalid LDAP URL.

       63     Maximum file size exceeded.

       64     Requested FTP SSL level failed.

       65     Sending the data requires a rewind that failed.

       66     Failed to initialise SSL Engine.

       67     The user name, password, or similar was not  accepted  and  curl
	      failed to log in.

       68     File not found on TFTP server.

       69     Permission problem on TFTP server.

       70     Out of disk space on TFTP server.

       71     Illegal TFTP operation.

       72     Unknown TFTP transfer ID.

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       73     File already exists (TFTP).

       74     No such user (TFTP).

       75     Character conversion failed.

       76     Character conversion functions required.

       77     Problem with reading the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?).

       78     The resource referenced in the URL does not exist.

       79     An unspecified error occurred during the SSH session.

       80     Failed to shut down the SSL connection.

       82     Could  not  load	CRL  file,  missing  or wrong format (added in
	      7.19.0).

       83     Issuer check failed (added in 7.19.0).

       XX     More error codes will appear here in future releases. The exist-
	      ing ones are meant to never change.

AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
       Daniel  Stenberg is the main author, but the whole list of contributors
       is found in the separate THANKS file.

WWW
       http://curl.haxx.se

FTP
       ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/

SEE ALSO
       ftp(1), wget(1)

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