Curl-url-file-3a-2f-2f-2f ((new))

In this command, curl would read the contents of the local /etc/passwd file.

curl --proto =http,https --proto-redir =http,https "$url" curl-url-file-3A-2F-2F-2F

If you encountered url-file-3A-2F-2F-2F inside a log, config, or API response – it’s almost certainly an URI. Decode it before passing to curl . In this command, curl would read the contents

That looks like a malformed or pseudocode version of a cURL command with a file:/// URL. In this command

While curl is famous for HTTP and HTTPS requests , it also supports the FILE scheme. Using file:/// allows you to treat local files as if they were remote resources. : curl file:///path/to/your/file.txt