| xf.li | 6c8fc1e | 2023-08-12 00:11:09 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | c: Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. |
| 2 | SPDX-License-Identifier: curl |
| 3 | Long: location |
| 4 | Short: L |
| 5 | Help: Follow redirects |
| 6 | Protocols: HTTP |
| 7 | Category: http |
| 8 | Example: -L $URL |
| 9 | Added: 4.9 |
| 10 | See-also: resolve alt-svc |
| 11 | Multi: boolean |
| 12 | --- |
| 13 | If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different |
| 14 | location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this |
| 15 | option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with |
| 16 | --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When |
| 17 | authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial |
| 18 | host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it will not be able to |
| 19 | intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change |
| 20 | this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the |
| 21 | --max-redirs option. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it will send the |
| 24 | following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the |
| 25 | response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request |
| 26 | using the same unmodified method. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by |
| 29 | using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select |
| 32 | to use. |