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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Long: globoff
Short: g
Help: Disable URL globbing with {} and []
Category: curl
Added: 7.6
Multi: boolean
See-also:
  - config
  - disable
Example:
  - -g "https://example.com/{[]}}}}"
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# `--globoff`

Switch off the URL globbing function. When you set this option, you can
specify URLs that contain the letters {}[] without having curl itself
interpret them. Note that these letters are not normal legal URL contents but
they should be encoded according to the URI standard.