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  1. c: Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  2. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
  3. Long: location
  4. Short: L
  5. Help: Follow redirects
  6. Protocols: HTTP
  7. Category: http
  8. Example: -L $URL
  9. Added: 4.9
  10. See-also: resolve alt-svc
  11. Multi: boolean
  12. ---
  13. If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different
  14. location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this
  15. option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with
  16. --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When
  17. authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial
  18. host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it will not be able to
  19. intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change
  20. this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
  21. --max-redirs option.
  22. When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it will send the
  23. following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the
  24. response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request
  25. using the same unmodified method.
  26. You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by
  27. using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303.
  28. The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select
  29. to use.