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Re: Outputting URL components

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:28:45 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Rich Gray via curl-users wrote:

> If it's not already possible, it seems like it would be useful to give curl
> a URL solely for the purpose of write outs (no transfer operation). Curl
> would be able to function as a URL parser for scripts.
>
> curl --noop http://www.example.com:123/test -w'%{url.port}\n'
>
> would echo out 123 on a line by itself.
>
> --noop could also be useful for testing a curl command line for validity
> without doing a transfer. (Could this speed up some tests?)

Yeah, that exact thought crossed my mind as well. I'm hesitating though,
because I'm a little afraid of where such an option might take us.


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Received on 2023-03-30