You can tell curl to perform optional commands both before and/or after a
file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option.
- Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform
- FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must always specify
- a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands.
+ Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't normally use curl to
+ perform FTP commands without transferring anything. Therefore you must
+ always specify a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP
+ commands, or use -I which implies the "no body" option sent to libcurl.
3.5 How can I disable the Accept: */* header?