Commit e9eb5230 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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two more actual FAQs

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Updated: December 21, 2004 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
Updated: April 5, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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  3.15 Can I do recursive fetches with curl?
  3.16 What certificates do I need when I use SSL?
  3.17 How do I list the root dir of an FTP server?
  3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?

 4. Running Problems
  4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
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  5.7 Link errors when building libcurl on Windows!
  5.8 libcurl.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
  5.9 How does libcurl resolve host names?
  5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout?

 6. License Issues
  6.1 I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
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     curl ftp://ftp.sunet.se//tmp/

  3.18 Can I use curl to send a POST/PUT and not wait for a response?
 
  No.


4. Running Problems

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    A - gethostbyname() on plain ipv4 windows hosts
    B - getaddrinfo() on ipv6-enabled windows hosts

  Also note that libcurl never resolves or reverse-lookups addresses given as
  pure numbers, such as 127.0.0.1 or ::1.

  5.10 How do I prevent libcurl from writing the response to stdout?

  libcurl provides a default built-in write function that writes received data
  to stdout. Set a WRITEFUNCTION to receive the data, or possibly set
  WRITEDATA to a different FILE * handle.


6. License Issues

  Curl and libcurl are released under a MIT/X derivate license. The license is