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curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
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- Mostly written in C
- Mature, well-established codebase
- Large, active development team
- Well-commented source code
Updated 02 Jul 2009 07:37 UTC
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If you're moving files via TCP or programming interaction with an HTTP server, cURL is probably the right tool for the job.
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curl 7.19.5
I’m happy to say that we’ve just shipped our 111th public release of curl and libcurl: 7.19.5
Notable changes this time include:
libcurl now closes all dead connections whenever you attempt to open a new connection
libssh2’s
Dear Apple Inc
Dear Apple Inc,
As one of the primary authors of libcurl and curl, two parts that are included in every Mac OS X release since years back, I was only wondering if you would consider sponsoring me with a Mac, to make it easier for me to do (lib)curl development, tuning and bug-fixing on/for the Mac?
I [...]
Getting support to curl
The other day I read this blog post by Stormy Peters, talking about getting people to sponsor or support Open Source projects and she continued to describe the Gnome approach and a bunch of projects that accept donations etc etc.
It made me (not too surprising) think about the situation for our little project cURL. We’re [...]
Adding known hosts support
… to libcurl and libssh2!
I’m about to start this little mini adventure, so if you’re one of the guys out there who’s been looking forward to be able to do even more (Open)SSH-like things with curl and libcurl when we use SCP and SFTP then consider this a little notification to start listening!
This will require [...]
HTTP Status Report
Mark Nottingham held a very interesting one hour talk on the status of HTTP and the work on HTTPbis on a QCon conference recently, and luckily for us HTTP geeks there’s this great video/presentation from that.
curl is mentioned at least twice in the slides, unfortunately it has a wrong fact on the second mention [...]
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