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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-14 18:09:42 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2009-08-14 18:09:42 +0000
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I think it's worth clarifying that curl DOES NOT validate a given URL more
than what's absolutely necessary: 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 instead VERY liberal with what it accepts.
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@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ 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.
+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 instead
+\fBvery\fP 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