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      1 Long: location
      2 Short: L
      3 Help: Follow redirects
      4 Protocols: HTTP
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      6 If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different
      7 location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this
      8 option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with
      9 --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When
     10 authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial
     11 host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to
     12 intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change
     13 this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the
     14 --max-redirs option.
     15 
     16 When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example
     17 POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response
     18 was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will
     19 re-send the following request using the same unmodified method.
     20 
     21 You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x
     22 response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and
     23 --post303.
     24