curl/docs/cmdline-opts/url.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: url Arg: Help: URL to work with Category: curl Added: 7.5 Multi: append See-also:

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• config Example:
• --url $URL ---

--url

Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify URL(s) in a config file.

If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as http:// or ftp:// etc) then curl makes a guess based on the host. If the outermost subdomain name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol is used, otherwise HTTP is used. Guessing can be avoided by providing a full URL including the scheme, or disabled by setting a default protocol (added in 7.45.0), see --proto-default for details.

To control where this URL is written, use the --output or the --remote-name options.

WARNING: On Windows, particular file:// accesses can be converted to network accesses by the operating system. Beware!