This curl recipe shows you how to make curl always follow 301, 302, 303, or any other 3XX redirect. By default, curl doesn't follow redirects. To make it follow all redirects, use the -L command line option.
Follow Any Redirect
curl -L http://catonmat.net
This recipe uses the -L argument that forces curl to follow all possible redirects. In this recipe, curl is requesting http://catonmat.net but as this website has moved to https, it sends a 301 redirect response to https://catonmat.net. Curl sees it, follows it, and fetches the https version of the website.
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