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Daniel Stenberg 2000-11-22 07:52:48 +00:00
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CONFIG FILE
Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32
systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file should be
made up with normal command line switches. Comments can be used within the
file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line
is treated as a comment.
systems) from the user's home dir on startup.
The config file could be made up with normal command line switches, but you
can also specify the long options without the dashes to make it more
readable. You can separate the options and the parameter with spaces, or
with = or :. Comments can be used within the file. If the first letter on a
line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line is treated as a comment.
If you want the parameter to contain spaces, you must inclose the entire
parameter within double quotes ("). Within those quotes, you specify a
quote as \".
NOTE: You must specify options and their arguments on the same line.
Example, set default time out and proxy in a config file:
# We want a 30 minute timeout:
-m 1800
# ... and we use a proxy for all accesses:
-x proxy.our.domain.com:8080
proxy = proxy.our.domain.com:8080
White spaces ARE significant at the end of lines, but all white spaces
leading up to the first characters of each line are ignored.
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without URL by making a config file similar to:
# default url to get
http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html
url = "http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html"
You can specify another config file to be read by using the -K/--config
flag. If you set config file name to "-" it'll read the config from stdin,
which can be handy if you want to hide options from being visible in process
tables etc:
echo "-u user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com
echo "user = user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com
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