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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: random-file Arg: Help: File for reading random data from Category: misc Added: 7.7 Multi: single See-also:

• egd-file Example:
• --random-file rubbish $URL

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--random-file

Deprecated option. This option is ignored (added in 7.84.0). Prior to that it only had an effect on curl if built to use old versions of OpenSSL.

Specify the path name to file containing random data. The data may be used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.