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Christoph: /* Miscellaneous examples */

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‎Miscellaneous examples

Christoph at 07:05, 20 June 2022

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Christoph: /* Simple usage */

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‎Simple usage

Christoph: /* Miscellaneous examples */

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‎Miscellaneous examples

Christoph: /* Miscellaneous examples */

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‎Miscellaneous examples

Christoph: /* Download to a file */

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‎Download to a file

Christoph: /* Simple usage */

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‎Simple usage

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‎Simple usage

Christoph: /* Simple usage */

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‎Simple usage

Christoph at 03:33, 18 February 2016

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 * Check on the amount of time it takes to load a website (lookup/connect/transfer times):
-  $ for i in $(seq 1 3); do curl -so /dev/null www.example.com \
+  $ for i in $(seq 1 3); do
-    -w "time_namelookup: %{time_namelookup}\
+     curl -so /dev/null www.example.com \
          \ttime_connect: %{time_connect}\
          \ttime_starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\
-         \ttime_total: %{time_total}\n"; done
+         \ttime_total: %{time_total}\n";
   time_namelookup: 0.004  time_connect: 0.005     time_starttransfer: 0.854       time_total: 0.964
   time_namelookup: 0.004  time_connect: 0.005     time_starttransfer: 0.575       time_total: 0.617

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-'''cURL''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, Telnet, DICT, FILE and LDAP. cURL supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, Kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate for HTTP and kerberos4 for FTP), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and many other features. cURL is open source/free software distributed under MIT License.
+'''cURL''' is a [[:Category:Linux Command Line Tools|command line tool]] for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, Telnet, DICT, FILE and LDAP. cURL supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, Kerberos, HTTP form-based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate for HTTP and kerberos4 for FTP), file transfer resume, HTTP proxy tunnelling, and many other features. cURL is open source/free software distributed under MIT License.
-The main purpose and use for cURL is to automate unattended file transfers or sequences of operations. It is for example a good tool for simulating a user's actions at a web browser.
+The main purpose and use for cURL is to automate unattended file transfers or sequences of operations. It is for example a good tool for simulating a user's actions in a web browser.
 Libcurl is the corresponding library/API that users may incorporate into their programs; cURL acts as a stand-alone wrapper to the libcurl library. libcurl is being used to provide URL transfer capabilities to numerous applications, Open Source as well as many commercial ones.

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 Libcurl is the corresponding library/API that users may incorporate into their programs; cURL acts as a stand-alone wrapper to the libcurl library. libcurl is being used to provide URL transfer capabilities to numerous applications, Open Source as well as many commercial ones.
-== Simple usage ==
+==Common options==
 * Get the main page from firefox's web-server:

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 * Retries:
   $ curl -4 --retry 25 --retry-delay 20 --retry-connrefused
 == Download to a file ==

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   time_namelookup: 0.004  time_connect: 0.005     time_starttransfer: 0.575       time_total: 0.617
   time_namelookup: 0.004  time_connect: 0.005     time_starttransfer: 0.550       time_total: 0.555
 == Download to a file ==

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 * Fetch two files and store them with their remote names:
-  $ curl -O www.haxx.se/index.html -O curl.haxx.se/download.html</pre>
+  $ curl -O www.haxx.se/index.html -O curl.haxx.se/download.html
 ==Using cURL for fast downloads==

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   $ curl <nowiki>ftp://cool.haxx.se/</nowiki>
-* Get a gopher document from funet's gopher server:
+* Get a gopher document from a gopher server:
   $ curl <nowiki>gopher://gopher.funet.fi</nowiki>
 * Get the definition of curl from a dictionary:

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 * Get the README file the user's home directory at funet's ftp-server:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README</nowiki>
 * Get a web page from a server using port 8000:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/</nowiki>
 * Get a list of a directory of an FTP site:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl ftp://cool.haxx.se/</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>ftp://cool.haxx.se/</nowiki>
 * Get a gopher document from funet's gopher server:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl gopher://gopher.funet.fi</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>gopher://gopher.funet.fi</nowiki>
 * Get the definition of curl from a dictionary:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl dict://dict.org/m:curl</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>dict://dict.org/m:curl</nowiki>
 * Fetch two documents at once:
-  $ curl <nowiki>curl ftp://cool.haxx.se/ http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/</nowiki>
+  $ curl <nowiki>ftp://cool.haxx.se/ http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/</nowiki>
 * Follow [[Rewrite engine|301 redirects]]:

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 * Follow [[Rewrite engine|301 redirects]]:
-  $ curl -I http://xtof.ch/skills
+  $ curl -I <nowiki>http://xtof.ch/skills</nowiki>
   HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
   Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:24:28 GMT
   Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
-  Location: http://wiki.christophchamp.com/index.php/Technical_and_Specialized_Skills
+  Location: <nowiki>http://wiki.christophchamp.com/index.php/Technical_and_Specialized_Skills</nowiki>
   Connection: close
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
-  # xtof.ch/skills redirects to http://wiki.christophchamp.com/index.php/Technical_and_Specialized_Skill
+  # xtof.ch/skills redirects to <nowiki>http://wiki.christophchamp.com/index.php/Technical_and_Specialized_Skills</nowiki>
   # So, use "-L" to follow that redirect:
   $ curl -L <nowiki>http://xtof.ch/skills</nowiki>