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Yes. Both ways on FTP, download ways on HTTP.
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Try the -c and -C options.
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4. Is libcurl thread safe?
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As version seven is slowly marching in as the libcurl version to use, we
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part of a URL, you should qoute the entire URL by using single (') or
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double (") quotes round it.
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An example that would invoke a remote CGI that uses &-letters could be:
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# curl "http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text=yes&q=curl"
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10. How can I use {, }, [ or ] to specify multiple URLs?
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Because those letters have a special meaning to the shell, and to be used
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in a URL specified to curl you must quote them.
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An example that downloads two URLs (sequentially) would do:
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# curl '{curl,www}.haxx.se'
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11. Where can I find a copy of LIBEAY32.DLL?
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That is an OpenSSL binary built for Windows.
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Curl uses OpenSSL to do the SSL stuff. The LIBEAY32.DLL is what curl needs
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on a windows machine to do https://. Check out the curl web page to find
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accurate and up-to-date pointers to recent OpenSSL DDLs and other binary
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respond and that means that headers and a "page" will be returned. That's
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simply how HTTP works.
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By using the --fail option you can tell curl explicitly to not get any data
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if the HTTP return code doesn't say success.
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13. Why do I get "HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden" from a http server?
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RFC2616 clearly explains this return code:
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16. How do I keep usernames and passwords secret in Curl command lines?
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I see this problem in two parts:
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I see this problem as two parts:
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The first part is to avoid having clear-text passwords in the command line
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so that they appear in 'ps' outputs and similar. That is easily avoided by
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using the "-K -" contruct that causes curl to read parameters from stdin to
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which you can pass the secret info.
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so that they don't appear in 'ps' outputs and similar. That is easily
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avoided by using the "-K" option that tells curl to read parameters from a
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file or stdin to which you can pass the secret info.
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To keep the passwords in your account secret from the rest of the world is
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not a task that curl addresses. You could of course encrypt them somehow to
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19. Can I use curl to delete/rename a file through FTP?
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Yes. You specify custom ftp commands with -Q/--quote.
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One example would be to delete a file after you have downloaded it:
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# curl -O ftp://download.com/coolfile -Q "-DELE coolfile"
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