curl

Global config for curl — applied to every curl invocation.

Files

File	Installed as
curlrc	~/.curlrc

Settings

Setting	Effect
-L	Follow redirects
referer = ";auto"	Automatically set the previous URL as referer on redirect
connect-timeout = 30	Abort if the connection phase takes more than 30 seconds
max-time = 300	Abort if the entire request takes more than 5 minutes
compressed	Request compressed response and auto-decompress
http2	Use HTTP/2 where supported (falls back to HTTP/1.1)
progress-bar	Simple # progress bar instead of verbose transfer stats
retry = 3	Retry up to 3 times on transient errors (408, 429, 5xx)
retry-delay = 2	Wait 2 seconds between retries
retry-max-time = 60	Give up retrying after 60 seconds total

What was removed

Flag	Why removed
-k	Disabled SSL certificate verification globally — a security risk for all curl calls, including those made by scripts and tools internally
-v	Verbose output on every request — breaks scripts that parse curl output and floods the terminal
user-agent = "MSIE 9.0..."	IE9 spoofing causes sites to return degraded or blocked responses; also hides curl's identity which breaks APIs that expect it

Pass -k or -v explicitly on the command line when you actually need them.

Install

./setup.ps1 -Module curl   # Windows
./setup.sh  -m curl        # Linux / WSL

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Source: curl/README.md in the dotfiles repo.