On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Krebs, Robert wrote:

> Here are my results for a "Hello World" example":  

> curl http://www.yahoo.com
>  
> curl (6): Couldn't resolve host 'www.yahoo.com'

> Does anyone know of any (simple or otherwise) explanations for this
> problem? 

If you intead enter "telnet www.yahoo.com", I suspect you'll get the same
error.

This is most likely because you are behind a proxy that your browser normally
use when you access the web.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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