lh | 9ed821d | 2023-04-07 01:36:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Long: location |
| 2 | Short: L |
| 3 | Help: Follow redirects |
| 4 | Protocols: HTTP |
| 5 | --- |
| 6 | If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different |
| 7 | location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this |
| 8 | option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with |
| 9 | --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When |
| 10 | authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial |
| 11 | host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to |
| 12 | intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change |
| 13 | this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the |
| 14 | --max-redirs option. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example |
| 17 | POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response |
| 18 | was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will |
| 19 | re-send the following request using the same unmodified method. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x |
| 22 | response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and |
| 23 | --post303. |