1 Long: location 2 Short: L 3 Help: Follow redirects 4 Protocols: HTTP 5 Category: http 6 --- 7 If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different 8 location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code), this 9 option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with 10 --include or --head, headers from all requested pages will be shown. When 11 authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial 12 host. If a redirect takes curl to a different host, it won't be able to 13 intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change 14 this. You can limit the amount of redirects to follow by using the 15 --max-redirs option. 16 17 When curl follows a redirect and if the request is a POST, it will do the 18 following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the 19 response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request 20 using the same unmodified method. 21 22 You can tell curl to not change POST requests to GET after a 30x response by 23 using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and --post303. 24 25 The method set with --request overrides the method curl would otherwise select 26 to use. 27