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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index f675dcc1b..e4fb043a8 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" nroff -man curl.1 .\" Written by Daniel Stenberg .\" -.TH curl 1 "24 March 2001" "Curl 7.7" "Curl Manual" +.TH curl 1 "20 April 2001" "Curl 7.7.2" "Curl Manual" .SH NAME curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or HTTPS syntax. @@ -94,11 +94,12 @@ If this option is used twice, the second one will disable ASCII usage. .IP "--connect-timeout <seconds>" Maximum time in seconds that you allow the connection to the server to take. This only limits the connection phase, once curl has connected this option is -of no more use. This option doesn't work in win32 systems. See also the +of no more use. This option didn't work in win32 systems until 7.7.2. See +also the .I "--max-time" option. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-c/--continue" .B Deprecated. Use '-C -' instead. Continue/Resume a previous file transfer. This instructs curl to @@ -117,7 +118,7 @@ If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by curl. Upload resume is for FTP only. HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-d/--data <data>" (HTTP) Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server, in a way that can emulate as if a user has filled in a HTML form and pressed the submit @@ -139,12 +140,12 @@ To post data purely binary, you should instead use the --data-binary option. -d/--data is the same as --data-ascii. -If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will +If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data. .IP "--data-ascii <data>" (HTTP) This is an alias for the -d/--data option. -If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will +If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data. .IP "--data-binary <data>" (HTTP) This posts data in a similar manner as --data-ascii does, although when @@ -152,9 +153,9 @@ using this option the entire context of the posted data is kept as-is. If you want to post a binary file without the strip-newlines feature of the --data-ascii option, this is for you. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. -If this option is used serveral times, the ones following the first will +If this option is used several times, the ones following the first will append data. .IP "-D/--dump-header <file>" (HTTP/FTP) @@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ This option is handy to use when you want to store the cookies that a HTTP site sends to you. The cookies could then be read in a second curl invoke by using the -b/--cookie option! -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-e/--referer <URL>" (HTTP) Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP server. This can also be set with the -H/--header flag of course. When used with @@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ you can append ";auto" to the referer URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL when it follows a Location: header. The ";auto" string can be used alone, even if you don't set an initial referer. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--egd-file <file>" (HTTPS) Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections. See also the @@ -188,12 +189,12 @@ If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on the terminal. Note that this certificate is the private key and the private certificate concatenated! -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--cacert <CA certificate>" (HTTPS) Tells curl to use the specified certificate file to verify the peer. The certificate must be in PEM format. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-f/--fail" (HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done @@ -256,7 +257,7 @@ name, IP address or host name. An example could look like: .B "curl --interface eth0:1 http://www.netscape.com/" -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-I/--head" (HTTP/FTP) Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD @@ -269,7 +270,7 @@ If this option is used twice, the second will again disable header only. should be one of 'clear', 'safe', 'confidential' or 'private'. Should you use a level that is not one of these, 'private' will instead be used. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-K/--config <config file>" Specify which config file to read curl arguments from. The config file is a text file in which command line arguments can be written which then will be @@ -307,7 +308,7 @@ See also the .I "--connect-timeout" option. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-M/--manual" Manual. Display the huge help text. .IP "-n/--netrc" @@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine (any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's default .RE -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-q" If used as the first parameter on the command line, the .I $HOME/.curlrc @@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ document. FTP range downloads only support the simple syntax 'start-stop' (optionally with one of the numbers omitted). It depends on the non-RFC command SIZE. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-s/--silent" Silent mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes Curl mute. @@ -471,18 +472,18 @@ think that your last directory name is the remote file name to use. That will most likely cause the upload operation to fail. If this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT command will be used. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-u/--user <user:password>" Specify user and password to use when fetching. See README.curl for detailed examples of how to use this. If no password is specified, curl will ask for it interactively. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-U/--proxy-user <user:password>" Specify user and password to use for Proxy authentication. If no password is specified, curl will ask for it interactively. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "--url <URL>" Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you wanna specify URL(s) in a config file. @@ -565,12 +566,12 @@ The average download speed that curl measured for the complete download. The average upload speed that curl measured for the complete upload. .RE -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>" Use specified proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-X/--request <command>" (HTTP) Specifies a custom request to use when communicating with the HTTP server. @@ -581,19 +582,19 @@ HTTP 1.1 specification for details and explanations. Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists with ftp. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-y/--speed-time <time>" If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is used, the default speed-limit will be 1 unless set with -y. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-Y/--speed-limit <speed>" If a download is slower than this given speed, in bytes per second, for speed-time seconds it gets aborted. speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if not set. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-z/--time-cond <date expression>" (HTTP) Request to get a file that has been modified later than the given time and @@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make it request for a document that is older than the given date/time, default is a document that is newer than the specified date/time. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .IP "-3/--sslv3" (HTTPS) Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiating with a remote SSL server. @@ -630,7 +631,7 @@ Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead. If the file name is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout. This option has no point when you're using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities. -If this option is used serveral times, the last one will be used. +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. .SH FILES .I ~/.curlrc .RS |