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Re: How must I use the -G option?
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:10:11 +0200 (MET DST)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:10:11 +0200 (MET DST)
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Oriol Magrané wrote:
> I don't know how can I fetch an URL by GET method with curl's -G option.
> i.e. I type this:
>
> curl -d "q=hello" -G "http://www.google.com"
>
> and it says me "You can only select one HTTP request!"
> So... can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Isn't it the right
> syntax for doing a GET request?
You're using a version of curl where this is broken. Try upgrading to a more
recent version.
Another way of doing this request is of course:
curl "http://www.google.com/?q=hello"
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