than what's absolutely necessary:
curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead
VERY liberal with what it accepts.
based on often-used host name prefixes. For example, for host names starting
with "ftp." curl will assume you want to speak FTP.
+curl will do its best to use what you pass to it as a URL. It is not trying to
+validate it as a syntactically correct URL by any means but is instead
+\fBvery\fP liberal with what it accepts.
+
Curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that
getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects /
handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files