Http vs cli arguments

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I’m a little confused on some of the arguments to the http api. I’m looking at the documentation at https://docs.ipfs.io/reference/api/http/#api-v0-add and I’m not quite sure how to interpret some of the options as they might be applied to the http api.

For example what would dereference-args mean as applied as a curl argument? Can the add be applied server side or something?

Are these arguments simply carried over directly from the cli arguments?

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Yes, some arguments don’t make sense for curl. This documentation is auto-generated and this happens for some flags, but I’ll check what we can do.

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Thanks. I suspected that but just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something about how it worked.