1 Long: location 2 Short: L 3 Help: Follow redirects 4 Protocols: HTTP 5 --- 6 If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different 7 location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this 8 option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with 9 --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When 10 authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial 11 host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to 12 intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change 13 this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the 14 --max-redirs option. 15 16 When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example 17 POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response 18 was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will 19 re-send the following request using the same unmodified method. 20 21 You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x 22 response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and 23 --post303. 24