From 41b1f649bf63e3663fcf3d4a678fef37688e32b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:44:58 +0100 Subject: cmdline-docs: more options converted over --- docs/cmdline-opts/location.d | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/cmdline-opts/location.d (limited to 'docs/cmdline-opts/location.d') diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c70e6981 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/location.d @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Long: location +Short: L +Help: Follow redirects +Protocols: HTTP +--- +If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different +location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this +option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with +--include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When +authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial +host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to +intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change +this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the +--max-redirs option. + +When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example +POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response +was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will +re-send the following request using the same unmodified method. + +You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x +response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and +--post303. -- cgit v1.2.3