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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: referer Short: e Arg: Protocols: HTTP Help: Referrer URL Category: http Added: 4.0 Multi: single See-also:

• user-agent
• header Example:
• --referer “https://fake.example” $URL
• --referer “https://fake.example;auto” -L $URL
• --referer “;auto” -L $URL

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--referer

Set the referrer URL in the HTTP request. This can also be set with the --header flag of course. When used with --location you can append ;auto" to the --referer URL to make curl automatically set the previous URL when it follows a Location: header. The ;auto string can be used alone, even if you do not set an initial --referer.