Long: resolve Arg: <host:port:address[,address]...> Help: Resolve the host+port to this address Added: 7.21.3 --- Provide a custom address for a specific host and port pair. Using this, you can make the curl requests(s) use a specified address and prevent the otherwise normally resolved address to be used. Consider it a sort of /etc/hosts alternative provided on the command line. The port number should be the number used for the specific protocol the host will be used for. It means you need several entries if you want to provide address for the same host but different ports. By specifying '*' as host you can tell curl to resolve any host and specific port pair to the specified address. Wildcard is resolved last so any --resolve with a specific host and port will be used first. The provided address set by this option will be used even if --ipv4 or --ipv6 is set to make curl use another IP version. Support for providing the IP address within [brackets] was added in 7.57.0. Support for providing multiple IP addresses per entry was added in 7.59.0. Support for resolving with wildcard was added in 7.64.0. This option can be used many times to add many host names to resolve.