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The new libcurl and command line options are now described.
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Daniel Stenberg
2011-04-14 22:59:34 +02:00
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.TH curl 1 "28 November 2009" "Curl 7.21.4" "Curl Manual"
.TH curl 1 "14 April 2009" "Curl 7.21.6" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
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If this option is used several times, the last one will override the others.
.IP "--compressed"
(HTTP) Request a compressed response using one of the algorithms libcurl
supports, and return the uncompressed document. If this option is used and
the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.
supports, and save the uncompressed document. If this option is used and the
server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error.
.IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>"
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take.
This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is
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.IP "--trace-time"
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
(Added in 7.14.0)
.IP "--tr-encoding"
(HTTP) Request a compressed Transfer-Encoding response using one of the
algorithms libcurl supports, and uncompress the data while receiving it.
(Added in 7.21.6)
.IP "-u/--user <user:password>"
Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides
\fI-n/--netrc\fP and \fI--netrc-optional\fP.