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cURL - Gets files using URL syntax

curl is a tool for getting a file using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, FTP, DICT, TELNET, HTTPS, LDAP, FILE and GOPHER as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, passwords, portnumbers and proxies. curl is built around libcurl, a multiprotocol portable file transfer library for URL syntax.

Obtaining

Web page	http://curl.haxx.se/
Source tarball	http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.12.0.tar.gz

Version 7.12.0 (stable) released on 2004-06-02

Licensed under an X11-style license.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User tutorial available from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.shtml; user manual available from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/readme.curl.html; user manpage available from http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

Support contacts

Announce List	<[email protected]> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-announce
Help List	<[email protected]> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-users
Developer List	<[email protected]> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-library
Bug List	<[email protected]>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]>
Developers	Daniel Stenberg <[email protected]>
Contributors	Full list available from

Related information

Source repository	http://curl.haxx.se/cvs.html
Interfaces	web
Programs	curl, libcurl
Source languages	C
Use requirements	libcurl
Weak prerequisites	OpenSSL, OpenLDAP, any GSSAPI library (ie Heimdal or MIT kerberos), zlib
Related programs	Wget, PycURL, TclCurl

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <[email protected]> on 2000-12-11
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <[email protected]>

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