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Curl using Proxy

–preproxy [protocol://]host[:port]

Use the specified SOCKS proxy before connecting to an HTTP or HTTPS -x, –proxy.

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curl --preproxy socks5://proxy.example -x http://http.example https://example.com

-x, –proxy [protocol://]host[:port]

Use the specified proxy.

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curl --proxy http://proxy.example https://example.com

Specify Output

-O, –remote-name

Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get.

-o, –output

Write output to instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch multiple documents, you should quote the URL and you can use '#' followed by a number in the specifier. That variable will be replaced with the current string for the URL being fetched. Like in:

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curl "http://{one,two}.example.com" -o "file_#1.txt"

# or use several variables like:

curl "http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com" -o "#1_#2"

Specify Source Location

-L, –location

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          You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by using the dedicated options for
          that: --post301, --post302 and --post303
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curl -L https://example.com

Specify Request Method

-X, –request

(HTTP) Specifies a custom request method to use when communicating with the HTTP server. The specified request method will be used instead of the method otherwise used (which defaults to GET)

Specify Request Header

-H, –header <header/@file>

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curl -H "X-First-Name: Joe" https://example.com
curl -H "User-Agent: yes-please/2000" https://example.com
curl -H "Host:" https://example.com
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