curl tutorial Simple Usage Get the main page from a web-server: curl https://www.example.com/ Get a README file from an FTP server: curl ftp://ftp.example.com/README Get a webpage from a server using port 8000: curl http://www.example.com:8000/ Get a directory listing of an FTP site: curl ftp://ftp.example.com/ Get the all terms matching curl from a dictionary: curl dict://dict.example.com/m:curl