| Long: location |
| Short: L |
| Help: Follow redirects |
| Protocols: HTTP |
| --- |
| If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different |
| location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this |
| option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with |
| --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When |
| authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial |
| host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to |
| intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change |
| this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the |
| --max-redirs option. |
| |
| When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example |
| POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response |
| was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will |
| re-send the following request using the same unmodified method. |
| |
| You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x |
| response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and |
| --post303. |
