

In my opinion, the server should better be configured create local redirecting aliases where needed, to avoid having to pass this non conforming part of the URL. "curl -LOk" makes it using insecure protocols (-k), disabling SSL certificate checks (which fail because of the incorrect path not matching the certificate), and create the output file using the filename (-O) proposed from the remote server (also insecure). That could possibly be loaded automatically by Windows or some third A rogue server could send you the name of a DLL or other file WARNING: Exercise judicious use of this option, especially on Windows. Name, so this option may provide you with rather unexpected file There's no attempt to decode %-sequences (yet) in the provided file Note the warning of using CURL with the -J option: Note: (GitHub supports SSL - use You could also use a curlrc config file or alias the CURL command to use curl -O -L to allow it to work similar to WGET. use -J (use with -O) to allow remote header filename ( xampp-cli-master.zip).use -O for remote filenames ( master.zip).use -L in case there is a redirect found.
