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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-06-15 11:08:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2017-06-15 11:09:40 +0200 |
| commit | 84b9458837551a2749b45d924089f2015415a324 (patch) | |
| tree | 883cf0c7b9802226baa16495e6a6e766c799c405 /docs/cmdline-opts/header.d | |
| parent | b3e3a08c3c2f223fcab8631e31b1c59f29e0b4c0 (diff) | |
curl: allow --header and --proxy-header read from file
So many headers can be provided as @filename.
Suggested-by: Timothe Litt
Closes #1486
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/header.d')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/header.d | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/header.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/header.d index 90af7359e..d8292ed77 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/header.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/header.d @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ Long: header Short: H -Arg: <header> -Help: Pass custom header LINE to server +Arg: <header/@file> +Help: Pass custom header(s) to server Protocols: HTTP --- - Extra header to include in the request when sending HTTP to a server. You may specify any number of extra headers. Note that if you should add a custom header that has the same name as one of the internal ones curl would use, your @@ -21,6 +20,10 @@ end-of-line marker, you should thus \fBnot\fP add that as a part of the header content: do not add newlines or carriage returns, they will only mess things up for you. +Starting in 7.55.0, this option can take an argument in @filename style, which +then adds a header for each line in the input file. Using @- will make curl +read the header file from stdin. + See also the --user-agent and --referer options. Starting in 7.37.0, you need --proxy-header to send custom headers intended |