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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-11-25 19:44:49 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2012-11-25 19:44:49 +0100
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parent616a0099d14887b933c3b5bc5c253e6b8b1139f5 (diff)
FAQ: clarify the 3.4 section
You can do custom commands to FTP without sending anything by using the CURLOPT_NOBODY, which -I sets.
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You can tell curl to perform optional commands both before and/or after a
file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option.
- Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform
- FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must always specify
- a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands.
+ Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't normally use curl to
+ perform FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must
+ always specify a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP
+ commands, or use -I which implies the "no body" option sent to libcurl.
3.5 How can I disable the Accept: */* header?