lh | 9ed821d | 2023-04-07 01:36:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Long: dump-header |
| 2 | Short: D |
| 3 | Arg: <filename> |
| 4 | Help: Write the received headers to <filename> |
| 5 | Protocols: HTTP FTP |
| 6 | See-also: output |
| 7 | --- |
| 8 | Write the received protocol headers to the specified file. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | This option is handy to use when you want to store the headers that an HTTP |
| 11 | site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could then be read in a second |
| 12 | curl invocation by using the --cookie option! The --cookie-jar option is a |
| 13 | better way to store cookies. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | When used in FTP, the FTP server response lines are considered being "headers" |
| 16 | and thus are saved there. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |