Modern web traffic often involves redirects (HTTP 301/302). Without the right flags, curl may only download the redirect page rather than the file itself.
: Use the -o (lowercase o) flag to give the downloaded file a custom name. curl -o local_backup.zip https://example.com/archive.zip Use code with caution. 2. Handling Redirects and Network Issues download files curl
: Use the -O (uppercase O) flag to save the file with the same name it has on the server. curl -O https://example.com/archive.zip Use code with caution. Modern web traffic often involves redirects (HTTP 301/302)