curl.1: provide examples for each option

The file format for each option now features a "Example:" header that
can provide one or more examples that get rendered appropriately in the
output. All options MUST have at least one example or gen.pl complains
at build-time.

This fix also does a few other minor format and consistency cleanups.

Closes #7654
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Daniel Stenberg 2021-08-31 16:37:14 +02:00
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@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Help: Pass custom header(s) to server
Protocols: HTTP
Category: http
See-also: user-agent referer
Example: -H "X-First-Name: Joe" $URL
Example: -H "User-Agent: yes-please/2000" $URL
Example: -H "Host:" $URL
---
Extra header to include in the request when sending HTTP to a server. You may
specify any number of extra headers. Note that if you should add a custom
@ -32,10 +35,6 @@ proxy. Added in 7.37.0.
Passing on a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header when doing a HTTP request
with a request body, will make curl send the data using chunked encoding.
Example:
curl -H "X-First-Name: Joe" http://example.com/
**WARNING**: headers set with this option will be set in all requests - even
after redirects are followed, like when told with --location. This can lead to
the header being sent to other hosts than the original host, so sensitive