1 Long: url 2 Arg: <url> 3 Help: URL to work with 4 Category: curl 5 --- 6 Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify 7 URL(s) in a config file. 8 9 If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) 10 then curl will make a guess based on the host. If the outermost sub-domain 11 name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol will be 12 used, otherwise HTTP will be used. Since 7.45.0 guessing can be disabled by 13 setting a default protocol, see --proto-default for details. 14 15 This option may be used any number of times. To control where this URL is 16 written, use the --output or the --remote-name options. 17 18 Warning: On Windows, particular file:// accesses can be converted to network 19 accesses by the operating system. Beware! 20