updated for persistant connections

  3.7 Can I use curl to delete/rename a file through FTP?

  3.8 How do I tell curl to follow HTTP redirects?

  3.9 How do I use curl in PHP?

  3.10 What about SOAP, WEBDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

  3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

 4. Running Problems

  4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.

  invoke the curl tool using a command line. This is the way to use curl if

  you're using PHP3 or PHP4 built without curl module support.

  3.10 What about SOAP, WEBDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

  3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

  Curl adheres to the HTTP spec, which basically means you can play with *any*

  protocol that is built ontop of HTTP. Protocols such as SOAP, WEBDAV and

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                     How To Use Libcurl In Your Program

                   How To Use Libcurl In Your C/C++ Program

 [ libcurl can be used directly from within your PHP or Perl programs as well,

   look elsewhere for documentation on this ]

 The interface is meant to be very simple for applictions/programmers, hence

 the name "easy". We have therefore minimized the number of entries.

 For details on these, read the separate man pages.

Portability

 libcurl works *exactly* the same, on any of the platforms it compiles and

 builds on.

 There's only one caution, and that is the win32 platform that may(*) require

 you to init the winsock stuff before you use the libcurl functions. Details

 on this are noted on the curl_easy_init() man page.

 (*) = it appears users of the cygwin environment gets this done

       automatically.

Persistant Connections

 With libcurl 7.7, persistant connections were added. Persistant connections