- CURL
Infobox_Software
name = cURL
caption =
developer =
latest_release_version = 7.19.0
latest_release_date = release date|2008|09|01
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system =Cross-platform
programming_language = C
genre =FTP client /HTTP client
license = [http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html MIT/X derivate license]
website = http://curl.haxx.se/cURL is a
command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. The strong point of cURL is the number of data transfer protocols it supports (listed further down). Distributed under theMIT License , cURL isfree software .The main purpose and use for cURL is to automate unattended file transfers or sequences of operations. For example, it is a good tool for simulating a user's actions at a
web browser .Libcurl is the corresponding library/API that users may incorporate into their programs; cURL acts as a
stand-alone wrapper to the libcurl library. libcurl is used to provide URL transfer capabilities to numerous applications (open-source as well as proprietary).Bindings for more than 30 languages are available for libcurl.
upported protocols
* FTP
*FTPS
* HTTP
*HTTPS
* TFTP
* SCP
* SFTP
*Telnet
*DICT
*
* LDAPAdditional format support includes (and many other features):
* HTTPS certificates
* HTTP POST
* HTTP PUT
* FTP uploading
* Kerberos
* HTTP form based upload
* proxies
* cookies
* user+passwordauthentication (Basic DigestNTLM and Negotiate for HTTP and kerberos4 for FTP)
* file transfer resume
* HTTP proxy tunnelingee also
*
Wget
*Web crawler External links
* [http://curl.haxx.se/ cURL website]
* [http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html cURL manpage]
* [http://php.net/curl PHP using cURL method ]
* [http://www.oooff.com/seo-scripts.php Tutorials, Using PHP & cURL to Webscrape ]
* [http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html Scripting HTTP requests using cURL]
* [http://www.wagerank.com/2007/how-to-submit-forms-with-php/ How To Submit Forms With cURL and PHP]
* [http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html curl vs wget comparison]
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