Commit 91ab2497 authored by Steve Holme's avatar Steve Holme
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FEATURES: Small tidy up for constancy and grammar

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docs/FEATURES

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@@ -15,23 +15,23 @@ curl tool 
 - redirectable stderr

 - metalink support (*13)



libcurl supports

libcurl

 - full URL syntax with no length limit

 - custom maximum download time

 - custom least download speed acceptable

 - custom output result after completion

 - guesses protocol from host name unless specified

 - uses .netrc

 - progress bar/time specs while downloading

 - progress bar with time statistics while downloading

 - "standard" proxy environment variables support

 - compiles on win32 (reported builds on 40+ operating systems)

 - selectable network interface for outgoing traffic

 - IPv6 support on unix and Windows

 - persistent connections

 - socks5 support

 - supports user name + password in proxy environment variables

 - supports user name and password in proxy environment variables

 - operations through proxy "tunnel" (using CONNECT)

 - supports large files (>2GB and >4GB) both upload/download

 - support for large files (>2GB and >4GB) during upload and download

 - replaceable memory functions (malloc, free, realloc, etc)

 - asynchronous name resolving (*6)

 - both a push and a pull style interface
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ HTTP 
 - via http-proxy

 - retrieve file modification date

 - Content-Encoding support for deflate and gzip

 - "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" support for "uploads"

 - "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" support in uploads

 - data compression (*12)



HTTPS (*1)
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ HTTPS (*1) 
FTP

 - download

 - authentication

 - kerberos4 (*5), kerberos5 (*3)

 - kerberos4 (*5)

 - kerberos5 (*3)

 - active/passive using PORT, EPRT, PASV or EPSV

 - single file size information (compare to HTTP HEAD)

 - 'type=' URL support
@@ -107,7 +108,8 @@ SFTP (*8) 
 - with custom commands sent before/after the transfer



TFTP

 - download / upload

 - download

 - upload



TELNET

 - connection negotiation
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@ DICT 


FILE

 - URL support

 - "uploads"

 - upload

 - resume



SMTP
@@ -163,7 +165,7 @@ IMAP 
 - fetch e-mails with support for specifing the UID and SECTION

 - upload e-mails via the append command

 - enhanced command support for: EXAMINE, CREATE, DELETE, RENAME, STATUS,

   STORE, COPY, and UID via custom requests

   STORE, COPY and UID via custom requests

 - via http-proxy



IMAPS (*1)
@@ -177,14 +179,14 @@ FOOTNOTES 
  *1 = requires OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, yassl, axTLS, PolarSSL, schannel (native

       Windows), Secure Transport (native iOS/OS X) or qssl (native IBM i)

  *2 = requires OpenLDAP

  *3 = requires a GSSAPI-compliant library, such as Heimdal or similar.

  *3 = requires a GSSAPI-compliant library, such as Heimdal or similar

  *4 = requires FBopenssl

  *5 = requires a krb4 library, such as the MIT one or similar.

  *5 = requires a krb4 library, such as the MIT one or similar

  *6 = requires c-ares

  *7 = requires OpenSSL, NSS, qssl, schannel, or Secure Transport; GnuTLS, for

  *7 = requires OpenSSL, NSS, qssl, schannel or Secure Transport; GnuTLS, for

       example, only supports SSLv3 and TLSv1

  *8 = requires libssh2

  *9 = requires OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, yassl, Secure Transport, or SSPI (native

  *9 = requires OpenSSL, GnuTLS, NSS, yassl, Secure Transport or SSPI (native

       Windows)

  *10 = requires any of the SSL libraries in (*1) above other than axTLS, which

        does not support SSLv3