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| author | Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com> | 2012-06-21 00:51:06 +0900 |
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| committer | Yang Tse <yangsita@gmail.com> | 2012-06-21 03:35:23 +0200 |
| commit | 196c8242caa30472564290f1c89e7e19d2f04453 (patch) | |
| tree | 9771fcbcda3fe37e2d5c12a3c1f5f4ff645e29e7 /src/tool_help.c | |
| parent | 424bb3587748eb59c0d56613e88ef4511ad4dcbf (diff) | |
curl: Made --metalink option toggle Metalink functionality
In this change, --metalink option no longer takes argument. If
it is specified, given URIs are processed as Metalink XML file.
If given URIs are remote (e.g., http URI), curl downloads it
first. Regardless URI is local file (e.g., file URI scheme) or
remote, Metalink XML file is not written to local file system and
the received data is fed into Metalink XML parser directly. This
means with --metalink option, filename related options like -O
and -o are ignored.
Usage examples:
$ curl --metalink http://example.org/foo.metalink
This will download foo.metalink and parse it and then download
the URI described there.
$ curl --metalink file://foo.metalink
This will parse local file foo.metalink and then download the URI
described there.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/tool_help.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/tool_help.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tool_help.c b/src/tool_help.c index ac9246931..124f6404d 100644 --- a/src/tool_help.c +++ b/src/tool_help.c @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static const char *const helptext[] = { " --max-filesize BYTES Maximum file size to download (H/F)", " --max-redirs NUM Maximum number of redirects allowed (H)", " -m, --max-time SECONDS Maximum time allowed for the transfer", - " --metalink Process local Metalink file and use mirrors", + " --metalink Process given URLs as metalink XML file", " --negotiate Use HTTP Negotiate Authentication (H)", " -n, --netrc Must read .netrc for user name and password", " --netrc-optional Use either .netrc or URL; overrides -n", |