From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 09:44:55 +0000 (+0200) Subject: page-header: minor wording polish in the URL segment X-Git-Tag: curl-8_1_2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b62b5de7eb36aabeca054726e30480f92b9b5d03;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git page-header: minor wording polish in the URL segment Closes #11217 --- diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header index 0178fec8fc..566fe77387 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/page-header @@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ other: "http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html" You can specify any amount of URLs on the command line. They will be fetched -in a sequential manner in the specified order. You can specify command line -options and URLs mixed and in any order on the command line. +in a sequential manner in the specified order unless you use --parallel. You +can specify command line options and URLs mixed and in any order on the +command line. You can specify a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter: @@ -86,20 +87,16 @@ interface name. Like in "http://[fe80::3%25eth0]/" -If you specify URL without protocol:// prefix, curl will attempt to guess what -protocol you might want. It will then default to HTTP but try other protocols -based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting -with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP. +If you specify a URL without a protocol:// scheme, curl guesses what protocol +you want. It then defaults to HTTP but assumes others based on often-used host +name prefixes. For example, for host names starting with "ftp." curl assumes +you want FTP. -curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to -validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is fairly liberal -with what it accepts. - -curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that -getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / -handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files -specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl -invocations. +curl attempts to re-use connections when doing multiple file transfers, so +that getting many files from the same server do not use multiple connects / +handshakes. This improves speed. Connection re-use can only be done for URLs +specified for a single command line invocation and cannot be performed between +separate curl runs. .SH OUTPUT If not told otherwise, curl writes the received data to stdout. It can be instructed to instead save that data into a local file, using the --output or