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.\" nroff -man curl.1
.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
.\"
-.TH curl 1 "23 Sep 2003" "Curl 7.10.8" "Curl Manual"
+.TH curl 1 "17 Oct 2003" "Curl 7.10.8" "Curl Manual"
.SH NAME
curl \- transfer a URL
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -456,6 +456,14 @@ authentication info (which is plaintext in the case of HTTP Basic
authentication).
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable location following.
+.IP "--max-filesize <bytes>"
+Specify the maximum size (in bytes) of a file to download. If the file
+requested is larger than this value, the transfer will not start and curl will
+return with exit code 63.
+
+NOTE: The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such files
+this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger than
+this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers.
.IP "-m/--max-time <seconds>"
Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take. This is
useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours due to slow
@@ -1053,6 +1061,10 @@ Couldn't use specified SSL cipher
Problem with the CA cert (path? permission?)
.IP 61
Unrecognized transfer encoding
+.IP 62
+Invalid LDAP URL
+.IP 63
+Maximum file size exceeded
.IP XX
There will appear more error codes here in future releases. The existing ones
are meant to never change.