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curl-simple.md

Simple CURL commands

Curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server. It supports a busload of protocols and useful tricks. Here is how to simply use CURL.

Get the main page from Google's web-server:

curl http://www.google.com

Using a proxy and getting the main page from Google's web-server:

curl -x proxy.host.com:80 http://www.google.com

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