turned this into a list of documents/standards curl adheres to

                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|

This document lists documents that specify standards used by curl, software

that extends curl, web pages with similar utilities and information pages that

describe some of the tools that we use to build/compile/develop curl.

This document lists documents and standards used by curl.

Standards

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  RFC 959  - Defines how FTP works

  RFC 959  - The FTP protocol

  RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP

  RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109

Compilers

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  MingW32 - http://www.mingw.org/

  gcc     - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html

Software

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  OpenSSL -  http://www.openssl.org/

  OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org/

  zlib -     http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/

Similar Tools

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  wget    - http://sunsite.dk/wget/

  snarf   - http://www.xach.com/snarf/

  lynx    - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)

  swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/

  Kermit  - http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient

  Pavuk   - http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/

  httpr   - http://zwolak.dhs.org/httpr/

  puf     - http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ob6/sw/puf.html

Related Software

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  ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses

  autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html

  automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html

  bison    - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html

  gzip     - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html

  tar      - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html

  libtool  - http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html