1 Short: v 2 Long: verbose 3 Mutexed: trace trace-ascii 4 Help: Make the operation more talkative 5 See-also: include 6 Category: important verbose 7 --- 8 Makes curl verbose during the operation. Useful for debugging and seeing 9 what's going on "under the hood". A line starting with '>' means "header data" 10 sent by curl, '<' means "header data" received by curl that is hidden in 11 normal cases, and a line starting with '*' means additional info provided by 12 curl. 13 14 If you only want HTTP headers in the output, --include might be the option 15 you're looking for. 16 17 If you think this option still doesn't give you enough details, consider using 18 --trace or --trace-ascii instead. 19 20 Use --silent to make curl really quiet. 21