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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 pagehttp://curl.haxx.se/
Source tarballhttp://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.11.2.tar.gz
Version 7.11.2 (stable) released on 2004-04-26
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<curl-announce@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-announce
Help List<curl-users@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-users
Developer List<curl-library@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/curl-library
Bug List<curl-bug@haxx.se>

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Related information

Source repositoryhttp://curl.haxx.se/cvs.html
Interfacesweb
Programscurl, libcurl
Source languagesC
Use requirementslibcurl
Weak prerequisitesOpenSSL, OpenLDAP, any GSSAPI library (ie Heimdal or MIT kerberos), zlib
Related programsWget, PycURL, TclCurl

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2000-12-11
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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