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Updated: Sep 24, 2008 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

Updated: Jan 14, 2009 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)

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  libcurl

    A free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP,

    FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.  libcurl

    supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos,

    HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication,

    file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

    FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE, LDAP and LDAPS.

    libcurl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading,

    kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password

    authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

    libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on numerous

    platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, HPUX,

    A command line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax.

    Since curl uses libcurl, it supports a range of common Internet protocols,

    currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, LDAP, DICT,

    TELNET and FILE.

    currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, LDAP, LDAPS,

    DICT, TELNET and FILE.

  We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].

  Project cURL is entirely free and open. No person gets paid for developing

  (lib)curl. We do this voluntarily on our spare time.

  We get some help from companies. Contactor Data hosts the curl web site,

  Haxx owns the curl web site's domain and sourceforge.net hosts project

  services we take advantage from, like the bug tracker. Also, some companies

  have sponsored certain parts of the development in the past and I hope some

  will continue to do so in the future.

  We get some help from companies. CAG Contactor hosts the curl web site, Haxx

  owns the curl web site's domain and sourceforge.net hosts project services

  we take advantage from, like the bug tracker. Also, some companies have

  sponsored certain parts of the development in the past and I hope some will

  continue to do so in the future.

  If you want to support our project, consider a donation or a banner-program

  or even better: by helping us coding, documenting, testing etc.

  as used by numerous applications that include libcurl binaries in their

  distribution packages (like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Google Earth).

  More than 80 known named companies use curl in commercial environments and

  More than 90 known named companies use curl in commercial environments and

  products. More than 100 known named open source projects depend on

  (lib)curl.