On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, clemens fischer wrote:

> curl parses halfway into the option value of `-A' (user agent) and tries to
> connect to the "host" after the first blank within this value, which is
> completely wrong and fails.

That parsing is done and handled by your shell and has nothing to do with
curl. Fix your shell and curl will work as documented.

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