Loading FAQ +25 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Date: 15 March 2000 _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| Frequently Asked Questions about Curl FAQ 1. Problems connecting to SSL servers. Problems connecting to SSL servers. =================================== It took a very long time before I could sort out why curl had problems to connect to certain SSL servers when using SSLeay or OpenSSL v0.9+. Loading @@ -17,11 +22,13 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 I have also seen examples where the remote server didn't like the SSLv2 request and instead you had to force curl to use SSLv3 with -3/--sslv3. 2. Does curl support resume? Does curl support resume? ========================= Yes. Both ways on FTP, download ways on HTTP. 3. Is libcurl thread safe? Is libcurl thread safe? ======================= Yes, as far as curl's own code goes. It does use system calls that often aren't thread safe in most environments, such as gethostbyname(). Loading @@ -30,7 +37,8 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 README file from those who have used libcurl in a threaded environment, since I haven't and I get this question more and more frequently! 4. Why doesn't my posting using -F work? Why doesn't my posting using -F work? ===================================== You can't simply use -F or -d at your choice. The web server that will receive your post assumes one of the formats. If the form you're trying to Loading @@ -38,3 +46,14 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 use the -F type. In all the most common cases, you should use -d which then causes a posting with the type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. Does curl support custom FTP commands? ====================================== Yes it does, you can tell curl to perform optional commands both before and/or after a file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option. Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform ftp commands without transfering anything. Therefore you must always specify a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands. No newline at end of file Loading
FAQ +25 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Date: 15 March 2000 _ _ ____ _ ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| Frequently Asked Questions about Curl FAQ 1. Problems connecting to SSL servers. Problems connecting to SSL servers. =================================== It took a very long time before I could sort out why curl had problems to connect to certain SSL servers when using SSLeay or OpenSSL v0.9+. Loading @@ -17,11 +22,13 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 I have also seen examples where the remote server didn't like the SSLv2 request and instead you had to force curl to use SSLv3 with -3/--sslv3. 2. Does curl support resume? Does curl support resume? ========================= Yes. Both ways on FTP, download ways on HTTP. 3. Is libcurl thread safe? Is libcurl thread safe? ======================= Yes, as far as curl's own code goes. It does use system calls that often aren't thread safe in most environments, such as gethostbyname(). Loading @@ -30,7 +37,8 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 README file from those who have used libcurl in a threaded environment, since I haven't and I get this question more and more frequently! 4. Why doesn't my posting using -F work? Why doesn't my posting using -F work? ===================================== You can't simply use -F or -d at your choice. The web server that will receive your post assumes one of the formats. If the form you're trying to Loading @@ -38,3 +46,14 @@ Date: 15 March 2000 use the -F type. In all the most common cases, you should use -d which then causes a posting with the type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. Does curl support custom FTP commands? ====================================== Yes it does, you can tell curl to perform optional commands both before and/or after a file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option. Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform ftp commands without transfering anything. Therefore you must always specify a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands. No newline at end of file
