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Re: curl, http

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 15:51:41 +0100 (MET)

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Ben Bauer wrote:

> How can I make curl get all files required by an html base page?

Curl can't do that by itself. Curl doesn't understand HTML or other contents
you use curl to transfer.

> (like the --page-requisites option for wget)?

You should probably just use wget for that.

> Can curl be made to pretend it is a browser:

Yes and no.

> get the base page then get the images in parallel (several connections)?

No. And frankly, newer browsers don't (or shouldn't) do that either, if the
images are on the same host.

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2002-02-23