From 6589579850b09ff6bd3d987dc7172a5eef6f96e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:01:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] random updates --- docs/MANUAL | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 7894bcd54..87cd8aafe 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -166,13 +166,21 @@ UPLOADING VERBOSE / DEBUG - If curl fails where it isn't supposed to, if the servers don't let you - in, if you can't understand the responses: use the -v flag to get VERBOSE - fetching. Curl will output lots of info and all data it sends and - receives in order to let the user see all client-server interaction. + If curl fails where it isn't supposed to, if the servers don't let you in, + if you can't understand the responses: use the -v flag to get verbose + fetching. Curl will output lots of info and what it sends and receives in + order to let the user see all client-server interaction (but it won't show + you the actual data). curl -v ftp://ftp.upload.com/ + To get even more details and information on what curl does, try using the + --trace or --trace-ascii options with a given file name to log to, like + this: + + curl --trace trace.txt www.haxx.se + + DETAILED INFORMATION Different protocols provide different ways of getting detailed information @@ -350,6 +358,13 @@ COOKIES curl -b headers www.example.com + While saving headers to a file is a working way to store cookies, it is + however error-prone and not the prefered way to do this. Instead, make curl + save the incoming cookies using the well-known netscape cookie format like + this: + + curl -c cookies.txt www.example.com + Note that by specifying -b you enable the "cookie awareness" and with -L you can make curl follow a location: (which often is used in combination with cookies). So that if a site sends cookies and a location, you can @@ -363,7 +378,11 @@ COOKIES the cookies received from www.example.com. curl will send to the server the stored cookies which match the request as it follows the location. The file "empty.txt" may be a non-existant file. - + + Alas, to both read and write cookies from a netscape cookie file, you can + set both -b and -c to use the same file: + + curl -b cookies.txt -c cookies.txt www.example.com PROGRESS METER @@ -413,7 +432,8 @@ SPEED LIMIT Forcing curl not to transfer data faster than a given rate is also possible, which might be useful if you're using a limited bandwidth connection and you - don't want your transfer to use all of it. + don't want your transfer to use all of it (sometimes referred to as + "bandwith throttle"). Make curl transfer data no faster than 10 kilobytes per second: @@ -427,6 +447,11 @@ SPEED LIMIT curl -T upload --limit-rate 1M ftp://uploadshereplease.com + When using the --limit-rate option, the transfer rate is regulated on a + per-second basis, which will cause the total transfer speed to become lower + than the given number. Sometimes of course substantially lower, if your + transfer stalls during periods. + CONFIG FILE Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32