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To make the man page more readable, this change removes all references to changes in support/versions etc that happened before 7.30.0 from the curl.1 output file. 7.30.0 was released on Apr 12 2013. This particular limit is a bit arbitrary but was fairly easy to grep for. It is handled like this: the 'Added' keyword is only used in output if it refers to 7.30.0 or later. All occurances of "(Added in $VERSION)" in description will be stripped out if the mentioned $VERSION is from before 7.30.0. It is therefore important that the "Added in..." references are always written exactly like that - and on a single line, not split over two. This change removes about 80 version number references from curl.1, down to 138 from 218. Closes #7786
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Makefile
Long: request
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Short: X
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Arg: <command>
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Help: Specify request command to use
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Category: connection
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Example: -X "DELETE" $URL
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Example: -X NLST ftp://example.com/
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(HTTP) Specifies a custom request method to use when communicating with the
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HTTP server. The specified request method will be used instead of the method
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otherwise used (which defaults to GET). Read the HTTP 1.1 specification for
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details and explanations. Common additional HTTP requests include PUT and
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DELETE, but related technologies like WebDAV offers PROPFIND, COPY, MOVE and
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more.
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Normally you don't need this option. All sorts of GET, HEAD, POST and PUT
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requests are rather invoked by using dedicated command line options.
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This option only changes the actual word used in the HTTP request, it does not
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alter the way curl behaves. So for example if you want to make a proper HEAD
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request, using -X HEAD will not suffice. You need to use the --head option.
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The method string you set with --request will be used for all requests, which
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if you for example use --location may cause unintended side-effects when curl
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doesn't change request method according to the HTTP 30x response codes - and
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similar.
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(FTP)
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Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists
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with FTP.
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(POP3)
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Specifies a custom POP3 command to use instead of LIST or RETR.
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(Added in 7.26.0)
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(IMAP)
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Specifies a custom IMAP command to use instead of LIST. (Added in 7.30.0)
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(SMTP)
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Specifies a custom SMTP command to use instead of HELP or VRFY. (Added in 7.34.0)
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If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
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