1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: request-target 5Arg: <path> 6Help: Specify the target for this request 7Protocols: HTTP 8Added: 7.55.0 9Category: http 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - request 13Example: 14 - --request-target "*" -X OPTIONS $URL 15--- 16 17# `--request-target` 18 19Use an alternative target (path) instead of using the path as provided in the 20URL. Particularly useful when wanting to issue HTTP requests without leading 21slash or other data that does not follow the regular URL pattern, like 22"OPTIONS *". 23 24curl passes on the verbatim string you give it its the request without any 25filter or other safe guards. That includes white space and control characters. 26
