1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: url 5Arg: <url> 6Help: URL to work with 7Category: curl 8Added: 7.5 9Multi: append 10See-also: 11 - next 12 - config 13Example: 14 - --url $URL 15--- 16 17# `--url` 18 19Specify a URL to fetch or send data to. 20 21If the given URL is missing a scheme (such as `http://` or `ftp://` etc) curl 22guesses which scheme to use based on the hostname. If the outermost subdomain 23name matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP case insensitively, then that 24protocol is used, otherwise it assumes HTTP. Scheme guessing can be avoided by 25providing a full URL including the scheme, or disabled by setting a default 26protocol, see --proto-default for details. 27 28To control where the contents of a retrieved URL is written instead of the 29default stdout, use the --output or the --remote-name options. When retrieving 30multiple URLs in a single invoke, each provided URL needs its own dedicated 31destination option unless --remote-name-all is used. 32 33On Windows, `file://` accesses can be converted to network accesses by the 34operating system. 35
