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.TH libcurl 5 "19 March 2001" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl overview"

.TH libcurl 5 "19 March 2002" "libcurl 7.8.1" "libcurl overview"

.SH NAME

libcurl \- client-side URL transfers

.SH DESCRIPTION

libcurl works

.B 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 as if users of the cygwin environment get this done

automatically, also libcurl 7.8.1 and later can handle this for you.

.SH "THREADS"

Never ever call curl-functions simultaneously using the same handle from

several threads. libcurl is thread-safe and can be used in any number of

Note that the options set with curl_easy_setopt() will be used in on every

repeat curl_easy_perform() call

.SH "COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER LIBCURLS"

Repeated curl_easy_perform() calls on the same handle were not supported in

pre-7.7 versions, and caused confusion and undefined behaviour.