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page-header: minor wording polish in the URL segment
Closes curl#11217
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"http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html"
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You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched
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in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line
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options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line.
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in a sequential manner in the specified order unless you use --parallel. You
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can specify command line options and URLs mixed and in any order on the
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command line.
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You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or
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letter:
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"http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/"
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If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what
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protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols
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based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting
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with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP.
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If you specify a URL without a protocol:// scheme, curl guesses what protocol
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you want. It then defaults to HTTP but assumes others based on often-used host
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name prefixes. For example, for host names starting with "ftp." curl assumes
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you want FTP.
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curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
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validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is fairly liberal
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with what it accepts.
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curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that
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getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects /
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handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files
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specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl
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invocations.
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curl attempts to re-use connections when doing multiple file transfers, so
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that getting many files from the same server do not use multiple connects /
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handshakes. This improves speed. Connection re-use can only be done for URLs
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specified for a single command line invocation and cannot be performed between
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separate curl runs.
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.SH OUTPUT
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If not told otherwise, curl writes the received data to stdout. It can be
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instructed to instead save that data into a local file, using the --output or

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