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curl.1: updated protocols and polished language

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Daniel Stenberg 2010-09-09 00:04:55 +02:00
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@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ curl \- transfer a URL
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B curl
is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported
protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP or
FILE). The command is designed to work without user interaction.
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 interaction.
curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user
authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer
@ -55,16 +56,16 @@ or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)
ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
No nesting of the sequences is supported at the moment, but you can use
several ones next to each other:
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.
Since curl 7.15.1 you can also specify a step counter for the ranges, so that
you can get every Nth number or letter:
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
@ -87,8 +88,8 @@ invokes.
curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the amount
of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc.
However, since curl displays this data to the terminal by default, if you invoke
curl to do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it
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
\fIdisables\fP the progress meter as otherwise it would mess up the output
mixing progress meter and response data.
@ -300,8 +301,8 @@ away. EPRT and LPRT are extensions to the original FTP protocol, and may not wor
on all servers, but they enable more functionality in a better way than the
traditional PORT command.
Since curl 7.19.0, \fB--eprt\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again
and \fB--no-eprt\fP is an alias for \fB--disable-eprt\fP.
\fB--eprt\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and \fB--no-eprt\fP
is an alias for \fB--disable-eprt\fP.
Disabling EPRT only changes the active behavior. If you want to switch to
passive mode you need to not use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP or force it with
@ -311,8 +312,8 @@ passive mode you need to not use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP or force it with
transfers. Curl will normally always first attempt to use EPSV before PASV,
but with this option, it will not try using EPSV.
Since curl 7.19.0, \fB--epsv\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again
and \fB--no-epsv\fP is an alias for \fB--disable-epsv\fP.
\fB--epsv\fP can be used to explicitly enable EPRT again and \fB--no-epsv\fP
is an alias for \fB--disable-epsv\fP.
Disabling EPSV only changes the passive behavior. If you want to switch to
active mode you need to use \fI-P/--ftp-port\fP.