MANUAL.md

curl tutorial

Simple Usage

Get the main page from Netscape's web-server:

curl http://www.netscape.com/

Get the README file the user's home directory at funet's ftp-server:

curl ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README

Get a web page from a server using port 8000:

curl http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/

Get a directory listing of an FTP site:

curl ftp://cool.haxx.se/

Get the definition of curl from a dictionary:

curl dict://dict.org/m:curl

Fetch two documents at once:

curl ftp://cool.haxx.se/ http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/

Get a file off an FTPS server:

curl ftps://files.are.secure.com/secrets.txt

or use the more appropriate FTPS way to get the same file:

curl --ftp-ssl ftp://files.are.secure.com/secrets.txt

Get a file from an SSH server using SFTP:

curl -u username sftp://example.com/etc/issue

Get a file from an SSH server using SCP using a private key (not password-protected) to authenticate:

curl -u username: --key ~/.ssh/id_rsa scp://example.com/~/file.txt

Get a file from an SSH server using SCP using a private key (password-protected) to authenticate:

curl -u username: --key ~/.ssh/id_rsa --pass private_key_password
scp://example.com/~/file.txt

Get the main page from an IPv6 web server:

curl "http://[2001:1890:1112:1::20]/"

Get a file from an SMB server:

curl -u "domain\username:passwd" smb://server.example.com/share/file.txt

Download to a File

Get a web page and store in a local file with a specific name: