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improved the description of the -L/--location option

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Daniel Stenberg 2006-01-16 00:00:28 +00:00
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If this option is used twice, the second will again disable list only. If this option is used twice, the second will again disable list only.
.IP "-L/--location" .IP "-L/--location"
(HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has a different (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a
location (indicated with the header line Location:) this flag will let curl different location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code)
attempt to reattempt the get on the new place. If used together with this option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together
\fI-i/--include\fP or \fI-I/--head\fP, headers from all requested pages will with \fI-i/--include\fP or \fI-I/--head\fP, headers from all requested pages
be shown. If authentication is used, curl will only send its credentials to will be shown. When authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to
the initial host, so if a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't the initial host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be
intercept the user+password. See also \fI--location-trusted\fP on how to able to intercept the user+password. See also \fI--location-trusted\fP on how
change this. to change this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
\fI--max-redirs\fP option.
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable location following. If this option is used twice, the second will again disable location following.
.IP "--location-trusted" .IP "--location-trusted"