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. 20 21If the given URL is missing a scheme name (such as `http://` or `ftp://` etc) 22then curl makes a guess based on the host. If the outermost subdomain name 23matches DICT, FTP, IMAP, LDAP, POP3 or SMTP then that protocol is used, 24otherwise HTTP is used. Guessing can be avoided by providing a full URL 25including the scheme, or disabled by setting a default protocol, see 26--proto-default for details. 27 28To control where this URL is written, use the --output or the --remote-name 29options. 30 31**WARNING**: On Windows, particular `file://` accesses can be converted to 32network accesses by the operating system. Beware! 33
