Re: Outputting URL components

Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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