From 9f59fb6d3398ce0fcd23d0486324f78e8699452d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:35:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] curl.1: show zone index use in a URL --- docs/curl.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 8f8e3d65f..d8498b925 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ probably have to put the full URL within double quotes to avoid the shell from interfering with it. This also goes for other characters treated special, like for example '&', '?' and '*'. +Provide the IPv6 zone index in the URL with an escaped percentage sign and the +interface name. Like in + + http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/ + 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 example, for host names starting