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| author | ant <ant@localhost.localdomain> | 2012-05-04 21:58:05 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2012-05-26 23:10:15 +0200 |
| commit | 8834448cc15d4360f19152b4ce118c9323e43fe9 (patch) | |
| tree | e1f0ff370458c6dd45c5b32936e8143a29e49ded /docs/curl.1 | |
| parent | ee483aeca2d2dd766444b7ef74987ff802f78b68 (diff) | |
Add Metalink information and --metalink option to man page
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/curl.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index 64612d293..65da93412 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer -resume and more. As you will see below, the number of features will make your -head spin! +resume, Metalink, and more. As you will see below, the number of features will +make your head spin! curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features. See .BR libcurl (3) @@ -832,6 +832,15 @@ is used, this option can be used to prevent curl from following redirections 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 +of the mirrors listed within for failover if there are errors (such as the +file or server not being available). + +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.??.?) .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 @@ -1693,6 +1702,8 @@ SSPI is supported. If you use NTLM and set a blank user name, curl will authenticate with your current user and password. .IP "TLS-SRP" SRP (Secure Remote Password) authentication is supported for TLS. +.IP "Metalink" +This curl supports Metalink (RFC 5854), which describes mirrors and hashes. .RE .SH FILES .I ~/.curlrc |