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@@ -411,6 +411,22 @@ SPEED LIMIT
curl -m 1800 -Y 3000 -y 60 www.far-away-site.com
+ Forcing curl not to transfer data faster than a given rate is also possible,
+ which might be useful if you're using a limited bandwidth connection and you
+ don't want your transfer to use all of it.
+
+ Make curl transfer data no faster than 10 kilobytes per second:
+
+ curl --limit-rate 10K www.far-away-site.com
+
+ or
+
+ curl --limit-rate 10240 www.far-away-site.com
+
+ Or prevent curl from uploading data faster than 1 megabyte per second:
+
+ curl -T upload --limit-rate 1M ftp://uploadshereplease.com
+
CONFIG FILE
Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32
@@ -567,8 +583,8 @@ HTTPS
Many older SSL-servers have problems with SSLv3 or TLS, that newer versions
of OpenSSL etc is using, therefore it is sometimes useful to specify what
- SSL-version curl should use. Use -3 or -2 to specify that exact SSL version
- to use:
+ SSL-version curl should use. Use -3, -2 or -1 to specify that exact SSL
+ version to use (for SSLv3, SSLv2 or TLSv1 respectively):
curl -2 https://secure.site.com/