I am trying to make a curl request to one of our local development servers running a dev site with a self-signed SSL cert. I am using curl from the command line. I saw some blog posts …

curl: Remote file name has no length! curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information curl: (6) Could not resolve host: myfile.raw; No data record of requested type I've tried some …

I'm using curl at the command line on Linux to issue HTTP requests. The response bodies are printed to standard out, which is fine, but I can't see from the man page how to get curl to print …

I would expect curl to have a connection timeout (if nothing else, the OS and its TCP/IP stack almost certainly does), but it might not have a read timeout once the connection has been …

I was always assuming that when curl got an HTTP 500 response it was returning an exit code that meant failure (!= 0), but that seems to be not the case. Is there a way I can I make cURL …

How do I ignore or force the certificate using curl command line? When using wget seems to work fine. Also works when testing with openssl as below: $ openssl s_client -connect …

In that case, you will want to generate your own curl-ca-bundle.crt file. You can use certreq.exe and openssl.exe to export such a cert from the IE/Windows store, and then convert-to-pem …

This is an issue with curl, which has been fixed by the curl people, but many OS distributions package old versions. Basically if curl can find an ipv6 address for the domain in your URL, …

The curl manpage specifies the '--crlfile' option which exists exactly for this purpose. Also, curl is compiled with openssl and uses it for its crypto-related operations (including certificates) - it's …

I am keen to know the difference between curl and wget. Both are used to get files and documents but what the key difference between them. Why are there two different programs?