1 Long: location 2 Short: L 3 Help: Follow redirects 4 Protocols: HTTP 5 Category: http 6 Example: -L $URL 7 Added: 4.9 8 --- 9 If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different 10 location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this 11 option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with 12 --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When 13 authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial 14 host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it will not be able to 15 intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change 16 this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the 17 --max-redirs option. 18 19 When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it will send the 20 following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the 21 response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request 22 using the same unmodified method. 23 24 You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by 25 using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303. 26 27 The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select 28 to use. 29