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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2009-08-14 18:09:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2009-08-14 18:09:42 +0000 |
| commit | 62960f8a42c66c6a014e245291648b42fd4a17bb (patch) | |
| tree | bfcd81d4c96487a671903ec19125c90c191fcaaa /docs | |
| parent | 6293fe98a030dc776f38dec97e8241cb09cdd170 (diff) | |
I think it's worth clarifying that curl DOES NOT validate a given URL more
than what's absolutely necessary:
curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead
VERY liberal with what it accepts.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/curl.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index ddf9fe654..fcda7120b 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP. +curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to +validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead +\fBvery\fP liberal with what it accepts. + Curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files |