1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: url 5Arg: <url> 6Help: URL to work with 7Category: curl 8Added: 7.5 9Multi: append 10See-also: 11 - next 12 - config 13Example: 14 - --url $URL 15--- 16 17# `--url` 18 19Specify a URL to fetch. This option is mostly handy when you want to specify 20URL(s) in a config file. 21 22If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as "http://" or "ftp://" etc) 23then curl makes a guess based on the host. If the outermost subdomain name 24matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol is used, 25otherwise HTTP is used. Guessing can be avoided by providing a full URL 26including the scheme, or disabled by setting a default protocol (added in 277.45.0), see --proto-default for details. 28 29To control where this URL is written, use the --output or the --remote-name 30options. 31 32**WARNING**: On Windows, particular file:// accesses can be converted to 33network accesses by the operating system. Beware! 34