The cURL -Z or --parallel options are used to pass a list of URLs to request in parallel. For this parallel execution, cURL can handle up to 50 operations at the same time.
cURL also provides two additional parameters for this option:
--parallel-max
It specifies the number of connections that cURL can handle simultaneously.
--parallel-immediate
If this parameter is used, cURL will prioritize creating new connections instead of waiting for other connections to finish.
Here is how we can send cURL multiple requests with the --parallel option:
The above cURL command will send three requests in parallel to the URL httpbin.dev/headers. It will handle a maximum of 5 simultaneous requests and prioritize creating new connections.
Alternatively, we can specify the URLs to request and pass it to the cURL --config option. First, create a file urls.txt and the URLs:
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