How to force curl to follow the http 301 redirect response

Example we have a URL http://localhost/owndir which is a directory containing and index document## When running curl without any option, It will just display the HTTP 301 redirect instruction from the webserver to reload http://localhost/owndir/ root@system1 html]# curl http://localhost/owndir <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://localhost/owndir/">here</a>.</p> </body></html> ## To automatically follow the redirect instruction do the following root@system1 html]# curl -L http://localhost/owndir <html><body>local access only</body></html>