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| author | ant <ant@localhost.localdomain> | 2012-05-04 22:18:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-05-26 23:10:25 +0200 |
| commit | 462f10f8241ae8785e35b68fd40f74f18c49900e (patch) | |
| tree | 50b3f5c6167ae6dc7e80f9d73828a07689b78d38 | |
| parent | 8834448cc15d4360f19152b4ce118c9323e43fe9 (diff) | |
Add Metalink information and --metalink option to man page
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 65da93412..b6c28f43e 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -833,14 +833,22 @@ option to -1 to make it limitless. If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--metalink" -Makes curl parse and process a local Metalink file (RFC 5854) and make use +If curl is built against the libmetalink library then this option can tell +curl to parse and process a local Metalink file (RFC 5854) and make use of the mirrors listed within for failover if there are errors (such as the file or server not being available). +Example to use a local Metalink file: +\fBcurl\fP --metalink example.metalink + If Metalink support is enabled, curl will also use remote Metalinks if they are offered with the correct MIME type (application/metalink+xml). -(Added in 7.??.?) +Example to use a remote Metalink file: +\fBcurl\fP -O http://www.example.com/example.metalink + + +(Added in 7.??.?, disabled by default) .IP "-n, --netrc" Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on @@ -1704,6 +1712,8 @@ authenticate with your current user and password. SRP (Secure Remote Password) authentication is supported for TLS. .IP "Metalink" This curl supports Metalink (RFC 5854), which describes mirrors and hashes. +curl will use mirrors for failover if there are errors (such as the file or +server not being available). .RE .SH FILES .I ~/.curlrc |