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diff --git a/docs/MANUAL b/docs/MANUAL index 95211ed63..fbdabfb5c 100644 --- a/docs/MANUAL +++ b/docs/MANUAL @@ -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/ |