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@ -63,10 +63,13 @@ inter-operate better with URLs that appear in the wild.
### spaces
In particular `Location:` headers that indicate to the client where a resource
has been redirected to, sometimes contain spaces. This is a violation of RFC
3986 but is fine in the WHATWG spec. curl handles these by re-encoding them to
`%20`.
A URL provided to curl cannot contain spaces. They need to be provided URL
encoded to be accepted in a URL by curl.
An exception to this rule: `Location:` response headers that indicate to a
client where a resource has been redirected to, sometimes contain spaces. This
is a violation of RFC 3986 but is fine in the WHATWG spec. curl handles these
by re-encoding them to `%20`.
### non-ASCII
@ -171,9 +174,9 @@ brackets). For example:
### "localhost"
Starting in curl 7.77.0, curl will use loopback IP addresses for the name
`localhost`: `127.0.0.1` and `::1`. It will not try to resolve the name using
the resolver functions.
Starting in curl 7.77.0, curl uses loopback IP addresses for the name
`localhost`: `127.0.0.1` and `::1`. It does not resolve the name using the
resolver functions.
This is done to make sure the host accessed is truly the localhost - the local
machine.