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+# vim: ft=conf
+# curlrc
+
+# enable redirect
+-L
+
+# verbose
+-v
+
+# pretend to be chromium/chrome on linux
+user-agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36"
+
+# set previous url as referrer on redirect
+referer =";auto"
+
+# how long to wait before timing out
+connect-timeout = 60