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authorJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2016-11-16 01:40:23 -0500
committerJay Satiro <raysatiro@yahoo.com>2016-11-16 01:40:23 -0500
commit7f439f1652416e5c0423b3df694f18ae15636722 (patch)
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curl.1: Clarify --dump-header only writes received headers
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
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@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ told to read from a file like that, carriage returns and newlines will be
stripped out. If you don't want the @ character to have a special
interpretation use \fI--data-raw\fP instead.
.IP "-D, --dump-header <file>"
-Write the protocol headers to the specified file.
+Write the received protocol headers to the specified file.
This option is handy to use when you want to store the headers that an HTTP
site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could then be read in a second