Why I can't do curl --referer in my machine?
When I do curl -i --referer https://google.com
All I got is this:
curl: no URL specified! curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.
2 Answers
As stated in man curl:
curl [options] [URL...]
--referer is an option that takes an argument, and https://google.com is the argument for it. You didn't provide any URL to fetch.
you have not entered the url where the request will be sent
$ curl --referer <Referer_URL> <target_URL>
Example:
$ curl --referer http://google.com http://example.com
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--referertakes an argument. A referer is an URL, not a binary property.