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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: dump-header
5Short: D
6Arg: <filename>
7Help: Write the received headers to <filename>
8Protocols: HTTP FTP
9Category: http ftp
10Added: 5.7
11Multi: single
12See-also:
13  - output
14Example:
15  - --dump-header store.txt $URL
16  - --dump-header - $URL -o save
17---
18
19# `--dump-header`
20
21Write the received protocol headers to the specified file. If no headers are
22received, the use of this option creates an empty file. Specify `-` as file
23name (a single minus) to have it written to stdout.
24
25When used in FTP, the FTP server response lines are considered being "headers"
26and thus are saved there.
27
28Having multiple transfers in one set of operations (i.e. the URLs in one
29--next clause), appends them to the same file, separated by a blank line.
30