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1.3 What is curl not?
Curl is *not* a wget clone. That is a common misconception. Never, during
Curl is not a wget clone. That is a common misconception. Never, during
curl's development, have we intended curl to replace wget or compete on its
market. Curl is targeted at single-shot file transfers.
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Curl is not a PHP tool, even though it works perfectly well when used from
or with PHP (when using the PHP/CURL module).
Curl is not a single-OS program. Curl exists, compiles, builds and runs
under a wide range of operating systems, including all modern Unixes (and a
bunch of older ones too), Windows, Amiga, BeOS, OS/2, OS X, QNX etc.
Curl is not a program for a single operating system. Curl exists, compiles,
builds and runs under a wide range of operating systems, including all
modern Unixes (and a bunch of older ones too), Windows, Amiga, BeOS, OS/2,
OS X, QNX etc.
1.4 When will you make curl do XXXX ?
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Some facts to use as input to the math:
curl packages have been downloaded from the curl.haxx.se site well over a
million times. curl is installed by default with most Linux
curl packages are downloaded from the curl.haxx.se and mirrors almost one
million times per year. curl is installed by default with most Linux
distributions. curl is installed by default with Mac OS X. curl and libcurl
as used by numerous applications that include libcurl binaries in their
distribution packages (like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Google Earth).
More than 40 known named companies use curl in commercial environments and
More than 60 known named companies use curl in commercial environments and
products. More than 100 known named open source projects depend on
(lib)curl.
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based web servers. A guess is that a fair amount of these Linux
installations have curl installed.
All this taken together, there is no doubt that there are millions of
(lib)curl users.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/programs.html
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/using/apps.html
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./configure places the -L/usr/local/ssl/lib early enough in the command
line to make things work
Solution submitted by: Bob Allison <allisonb@users.sourceforge.net>
2.1.2 only the libssl lib is missing
If all include files and the libcrypto lib is present, with only the
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install and use them, in the libcurl section of the curl web site:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
In February 2003, there are interfaces available for the following
languages: Basic, C, C++, Cocoa, Dylan, Euphoria, Java, Lua, Object-Pascal,
Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, Rexx, Ruby, Scheme and Tcl. By the
time you read this, additional ones may have appeared!
In February 2007, there are interfaces available for the following
languages: Ada95, Basic, C, C++, Ch, Cocoa, D, Dylan, Euphoria, Ferite,
Gambas, glib/GTK+, Java, Lisp, Lua, Mono, .NET, Object-Pascal, O'Caml,
Pascal, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, R, Rexx, Ruby, Scheme, S-Lang,
Smalltalk, SPL, Tcl, Visual Basic, Q, wxwidgets and XBLite. By the time you
read this, additional ones may have appeared!
3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?

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* Make curl's SSL layer capable of using other free SSL libraries. Such as
Mozilla Security Services
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/), MatrixSSL
(http://www.matrixssl.org/) or yaSSL (http://yassl.com/). At least the
latter two could be alternatives for those looking to reduce the footprint
of libcurl built with OpenSSL or GnuTLS.
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/) or MatrixSSL
(http://www.matrixssl.org/).
* Peter Sylvester's patch for SRP on the TLS layer.
Awaits OpenSSL support for this, no need to support this in libcurl before