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1---
2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: referer
5Short: e
6Arg: <URL>
7Protocols: HTTP
8Help: Referrer URL
9Category: http
10Added: 4.0
11Multi: single
12See-also:
13  - user-agent
14  - header
15Example:
16  - --referer "https://fake.example" $URL
17  - --referer "https://fake.example;auto" -L $URL
18  - --referer ";auto" -L $URL
19---
20
21# `--referer`
22
23Set the referrer URL in the HTTP request. This can also be set with the
24--header flag of course. When used with --location you can append `;auto`" to
25the --referer URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL when it
26follows a Location: header. The `;auto` string can be used alone, even if you
27do not set an initial --referer.
28