1 c: Copyright (C) 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 makes curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with 16 --include or --head, headers from all requested pages are shown. 17 18 When authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial 19 host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it does not get the 20 user+password pass on. See also --location-trusted on how to change this. 21 22 Limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the --max-redirs option. 23 24 When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it sends the 25 following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the 26 response code was any other 3xx code, curl resends the following request using 27 the same unmodified method. 28 29 You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by 30 using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303. 31 32 The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select 33 to use. 34