sample .curlrc file

.curlrc

# this is a sample .curlrc file
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# store the trace in curl_trace.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
--trace curl_trace.txt

# store the header info in curl_headers.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
--dump-header curl_headers.txt

#change the below referrer URL or comment it out entirely
-e "https://www.google.com"

#change the below useragent string. get your/other UA strings from http://www.useragentstring.com/
-A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"

#some headers
-H  "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"
-H  "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1"
-H  "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch"
-H  "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8"

# follow redirects
--location

#verbose
#--verbose

#trace the time taken. more info here https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/verbose/trace
--trace-time

# write the trace data to stdout
--trace-ascii -

# ok if certification validation fails
--insecure

@v1m what does this file actually do?
In my case I had it with option "insecure" and it caused this error:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38761716/error-installing-crashlytics-ssl-peer-handshake-failed

I want to add the -k or --insecure header. How do I proceed?

@kvakhil95 Just add -k to .curlrc

There is an alternate syntax for some parameters, for instance user-agent="curl-QA" is equivalent to -A "curl-QA"

P.S. The --header "key:val" # must be in double-quotes --single-quotes don't work

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