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What is curl?
curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.
What's curl used for?
curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications totally affecting more than one billion users.
Who makes curl?
curl is free and open software that compiles and runs under a wide variety of operating systems. curl exists thanks to thousands of contributors.
What's the latest curl?
The most recent stable version is 7.41.0, released on 25th of February 2015. Currently, 76 of the listed archives are of the latest version.
Check out the latest source code straight from github.
becoming more github friendly March 2 2015
We're trying to lower barriers and friction for newcomers. We have a new
positive attitude to pull requests and issues filed directly
at github. Welcome!
Existing hackers: consider clicking 'watch' on that repo to get notified. curl and libcurl 7.41.0 February 25 2015
The curl team proudly presents another curl and libcurl
relese: version 7.41.0. Read up on all the
changes and bug fixes in the changelog.
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Weekly video update |
| Subject | GMT | Author | Thread | List |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [PATCH] make it possible to enable ALPN/... | Monday 09:47 | Alessandro Ghedini | 3 first | libcurl |
| FTP of growing files? | Monday 08:30 | Tor Arntsen | 6 first | libcurl |
| prerequisites for auto-generated docs ? | Monday 08:16 | Daniel Stenberg | 8 first | libcurl |
| Minor doc changes | Monday 07:39 | Daniel Stenberg | 2 first | libcurl |
| Memory leak observed while using libcURL | Monday 07:30 | Daniel Stenberg | 5 first | libcurl |
| Fixing CURLOPT_RESOLVE | Monday 07:29 | Ray Satiro via curl-library | 1 | libcurl |
| curl hackers! "watch" the github repo | Sunday 23:21 | Daniel Stenberg | 1 | libcurl |
| making github a curl citizen, or curl a ... | Sunday 22:28 | Daniel Stenberg | 10 first | libcurl |
| Redirect from POST to GET | Sunday 22:19 | Daniel Stenberg | 1 | curl-users |
| [PATCH] http2: Return error if stream wa... | Friday 21:23 | Steve Holme | 2 first | libcurl |