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README
How to read this book
The cURL project
Network and protocols
Install curl
Source code
Build curl
Command line basics
Command line options
Options depend on version
URLs
Scheme
Name and password
Host
Port number
Path
FTP type
Fragment
Browsers' address bar
Many options and URLs
Connection reuse
Parallel transfers
URL globbing
List options
Config file
Passwords
Progress meter
Using curl
HTTP with curl
FTP with curl
Using libcurl
HTTP with libcurl
Bindings
libcurl internals
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Path
Every URL contains a path. If there is none given, / is implied. For example when you use just the host name like in:
curl https://example.com
The path is sent to the specified server to identify exactly which resource that is requested or that will be provided.
The exact use of the path is protocol dependent. For example, getting the file README from the default anonymous user from an FTP server:
curl ftp://ftp.example.com/README
For the protocols that have a directory concept, ending the URL with a trailing slash means that it is a directory and not a file. Thus asking for a directory list from an FTP server is implied with such a slash:
curl ftp://ftp.example.com/tmp/
If you want a non-ASCII letter or maybe even space ( ) as part of the path field, remember to "URL-encode" that letter: write it as %HH where HH is the hexadecimal byte value. is %20.
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