On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> How is this supposed to work:
> echo "Accept: gzip,deflate" | curl --header - -v www.foo.com

It isn't! ;-)

> My impression from the manual this should read the headers from stdin.
> But the code in main.c does "headerfilep = stdout" ?!
> Must be missing something or curl is mixing --header and --dump-header.

The latter. --header only takes a given specified header and adds that to the
requst, it never reads them from a file nor stdin. (Making it capable of
reading from a file could be an exciting improvement.)

What wording/phrase mislead you to believe this?

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