From f3e5d4a6022cd3f0fee884f360967e7794eb026a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:24:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] curl doesn't do recursive operations --- docs/FAQ | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 93413e531..d27ad1ca3 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Updated: December 8, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) +Updated: December 22, 2003 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html) _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ FAQ 3.12 Why do FTP specific features over HTTP proxy fail? 3.13 Why does my single/double quotes fail? 3.14 Does curl support javascript or pac (automated proxy config)? + 3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl? 4. Running Problems 4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers. @@ -454,6 +455,14 @@ FAQ - Ask your admins to stop this, for a static proxy setup or similar. + 3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl? + + No. curl itself has no code that performs recursive operations, such as + those performed by wget. + + There exist wrapper scripts with that functionality (for example the + curlmirror perl script), and you can write programs based on libcurl to do + it, but the command line tool curl itself cannot. 4. Running Problems