On 7/25/25 07:53, Paul Dewhirst via curl-users wrote:
...
However Copy as cURL is dangerous because you are pasting something received
over the Internet
into your Command Prompt window (or the equivalent for other operating systems).
...
Ouch! I hadn't thought of that. On MacOS I have a script that
does something like:
curl <options,> "$( pbpaste )".
but that can fail if the pasteboard content bagins with "-".
I imagine no solution short of two coordinated
enhancement requests:
To curl:
a new option, "--URL <url>" which must appear last
and recognizes no punctuation such as "-" in <url>.
To Firefox:
Invoke curl not by pasting something into your
Command Prompt window, but by such as:
fork; execlp( "curl" [,options], "--URL <url> );
(dreadfully not portable.)
I could modify my script to prohibit URLs beginning
wit "-".
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gil
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