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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/_URL.md b/docs/cmdline-opts/_URL.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0084ec612 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/_URL.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +<!-- Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. --> +<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: curl --> +# URL +The URL syntax is protocol-dependent. You find a detailed description in +RFC 3986. + +If you provide a URL without a leading **protocol://** scheme, curl guesses +what protocol you want. It then defaults to HTTP but assumes others based on +often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting with +"ftp." curl assumes you want FTP. + +You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They are fetched in a +sequential manner in the specified order unless you use --parallel. You can +specify command line options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command +line. + +curl attempts to reuse connections when doing multiple transfers, so that +getting many files from the same server do not use multiple connects and setup +handshakes. This improves speed. Connection reuse can only be done for URLs +specified for a single command line invocation and cannot be performed between +separate curl runs. + +Provide an IPv6 zone id in the URL with an escaped percentage sign. Like in + + "http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/" + +Everything provided on the command line that is not a command line option or +its argument, curl assumes is a URL and treats it as such. |