[metadat]

What would be allowed after SSL? By default, does curl allow redirects to http:// via -L?

If so.. that's kinda sketchy from a security perspective. Especially because the flag you've shown is very unwieldy.

[dijit]

curl will not follow any redirects without -L, including from http to https.

But -L is very useful, so being able to prevent downgrades has useful functionality to help restrict it.

[metadat]

This has nothing to do with what I'm attempting to discuss.