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 <refentryinfo>
  <productname>YAZ</productname>
  <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
  <info><orgname>Index Data</orgname></info>
 </refentryinfo>

 <refmeta>
  <refentrytitle>yaz-url</refentrytitle>
  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  <refmiscinfo class="manual">Commands</refmiscinfo>
 </refmeta>

 <refnamediv>
  <refname>yaz-url</refname>
  <refpurpose>YAZ URL fetch utility</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>

 <refsynopsisdiv>
  <cmdsynopsis>
   <command>yaz-url</command>
   <arg>-H <replaceable>name:value</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-m <replaceable>method</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-O <replaceable>fname</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-p <replaceable>fname</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-R <replaceable>num</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-u <replaceable>user/password</replaceable></arg>
   <arg>-v</arg>
   <arg>-x <replaceable>proxy</replaceable></arg>
   <arg rep="repeat">url</arg>
  </cmdsynopsis>
 </refsynopsisdiv>

 <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
  <para>
   <command>yaz-url</command> is utility to get web content. It is very
   limited in functionality compared to programs such as curl, wget.
  </para>
  <para>
   The options must be precede the URL given on the command line to take
   effect.
  </para>
  <para>
   Fetched HTTP content is written to stdout, unless option -O is given.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1><title>OPTIONS</title>
  <variablelist>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>-H <replaceable>name:value</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Specifies HTTP header content with name and value. This
      option can be given multiple times (for different names,
      of course).
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-m <replaceable>method</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Specifies the HTTP method to be used for the next URL.
      Default is method "GET". However, option -p sets it to "POST".
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-O <replaceable>fname</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Sets output filename for HTTP content.
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-p <replaceable>fname</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Sets a file to be POSTed in the folloing URL.
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-R <replaceable>num</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Sets maximum number of HTTP redirects to be followed.
      A value of zero disables follow of HTTP redirects.
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-u <replaceable>user/password</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Specifies a user and a password to be uesd in HTTP
      basic authentication in the following URL fetch. The user
      and password must be separated by a slash (this it is not
      possible to specify a user with a slash in it).
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-v</term>
    <listitem><para>
      Makes yaz-url dump each HTTP request/response to stdout.
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

   <varlistentry>
    <term>-x <replaceable>proxy</replaceable></term>
    <listitem><para>
      Specifies a proxy to be used for URL fetch.
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>

  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title>
  <para>
   <citerefentry>
    <refentrytitle>yaz</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
   </citerefentry>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
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