All contributors to the project are listed in the THANKS document.
-WEB SITE
+WEBSITE
- Visit the curl web site for the latest news and downloads:
+ Visit the curl website for the latest news and downloads:
https://curl.haxx.se/
## Website
-Visit the [curl web site](https://curl.haxx.se/) for the latest news and
+Visit the [curl website](https://curl.haxx.se/) for the latest news and
downloads.
## Git
contribution so that it can be swiftly added to the package documentation.
The documentation is always made in man pages (nroff formatted) or plain
-ASCII files. All HTML files on the web site and in the release archives are
+ASCII files. All HTML files on the website and in the release archives are
generated from the nroff/ASCII versions.
### Test Cases
curl's development, have we intended curl to replace wget or compete on its
market. Curl is targeted at single-shot file transfers.
- Curl is not a web site mirroring program. If you want to use curl to mirror
+ Curl is not a website mirroring program. If you want to use curl to mirror
something: fine, go ahead and write a script that wraps around curl to make
it reality (like curlmirror.pl does).
up to each company and developer. This is not controlled by nor supervised in
any way by the project.
- We still get help from companies. Haxx provides web site, bandwidth, mailing
+ We still get help from companies. Haxx provides website, bandwidth, mailing
lists etc, GitHub hosts the primary git repository and other services like
the bug tracker at https://github.com/curl/curl. Also again, some companies
have sponsored certain parts of the development in the past and I hope some
curl is fully open source. It means you can hire any skilled engineer to fix
your curl-related problems.
- We list available alternatives on the curl web site:
+ We list available alternatives on the curl website:
https://curl.haxx.se/support.html
1.10 How many are using curl?
Curl can be built with OpenSSL to do the SSL stuff. The LIBEAY32.DLL is then
what curl needs on a windows machine to do https:// etc. Check out the curl
- web site to find accurate and up-to-date pointers to recent OpenSSL DLLs and
+ website to find accurate and up-to-date pointers to recent OpenSSL DLLs and
other binary packages.
2.4 Does curl support SOCKS (RFC 1928) ?
a language, you may prefer to use one of these interfaces instead.
Find out more about which languages that support curl directly, and how to
- install and use them, in the libcurl section of the curl web site:
+ install and use them, in the libcurl section of the curl website:
https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
All the various bindings to libcurl are made by other projects and people,
3.19 How do I get HTTP from a host using a specific IP address?
- For example, you may be trying out a web site installation that isn't yet in
+ For example, you may be trying out a website installation that isn't yet in
the DNS. Or you have a site using multiple IP addresses for a given host
name and you want to address a specific one out of the set.
donations are services paid for directly by the sponsors.
We grade sponsors in a few different levels and if they meet the criteria,
-they can be mentioned on the Sponsors page on the curl web site.
+they can be mentioned on the Sponsors page on the curl website.
## Commercial Support
The primary server is paid for by Haxx. The machine is physically located in a
server bunker in Stockholm Sweden, operated by the company Portlane.
-The web site contents are served to the web via Fastly and Daniel is the
+The website contents are served to the web via Fastly and Daniel is the
primary curl contact with Fastly.
### BDFL
May: first Debian package.
-August: LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl web site gets 1300 visits
+August: LDAP:// and FILE:// support added. The curl website gets 1300 visits
weekly. Moved site to curl.haxx.nu.
September: Released curl 6.0. 15000 lines of code.
June: the curl site moves to "curl.haxx.se"
-August, the curl web site gets 4000 visits weekly.
+August, the curl website gets 4000 visits weekly.
The PHP guys adopted libcurl already the same month, when the first ever third
party libcurl binding showed up. CURL has been a supported module in PHP since
August: curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more and
more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD
-ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation
+ports collections. The curl website gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation
contacted Daniel to discuss "the name issue". After Daniel's reply, they have
never since got back in touch again.
2002
----
-June: the curl web site gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is
+June: the curl website gets 13000 visits weekly. curl and libcurl is
35000 lines of code. Reported successful compiles on more than 40 combinations
of CPUs and operating systems.
Available command line options: 96
Available curl_easy_setopt() options: 120
Number of public functions in libcurl: 36
- Amount of public web site mirrors: 12
+ Amount of public website mirrors: 12
Number of known libcurl bindings: 26
2005
September: TFTP support was added.
-More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl web site. 25 mirrors.
+More than 100,000 unique visitors of the curl website. 25 mirrors.
December: security vulnerability: libcurl URL Buffer Overflow
March: first real release supporting HTTP/2
- September: Web site had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data
+ September: Website had 245,000 unique visitors and served 236GB data
SMB and SMBS support
September: Added Multi-SSL support
- The web site serves 3100 GB/month
+ The website serves 3100 GB/month
Public curl releases: 169
Command line options: 211
Since curl and libcurl are plain HTTP clients without any knowledge of or
capability to handle javascript, such cookies will not be detected or used.
- Often, if you want to mimic what a browser does on such web sites, you can
+ Often, if you want to mimic what a browser does on such websites, you can
record web browser HTTP traffic when using such a site and then repeat the
cookie operations using curl or libcurl.
send your email to.
Your email as sent to a curl mailing list will end up in mail archives, on
- the curl web site and elsewhere, for others to see and read. Today and in
+ the curl website and elsewhere, for others to see and read. Today and in
the future. In addition to the archives, the mail is sent out to thousands
of individuals. There is no way to undo a sent email.
for reading directly in your browser.
If you'd rather see the rendered version of the documentation, check out the
-curl web site's [documentation section](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/) for
+curl website's [documentation section](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/) for
general curl stuff or the [libcurl section](https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/) for
libcurl related documentation.
- make sure all relevant changes are committed and pushed on the master branch
- (the web site then updates its contents automatically)
+ (the website then updates its contents automatically)
on github
---------
----------------------
All known and public curl or libcurl related vulnerabilities are listed on
-[the curl web site security page](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html).
+[the curl website security page](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/security.html).
Security vulnerabilities **should not** be entered in the project's public bug
tracker.
the same manner we always announce releases. It gets sent to the
curl-announce, curl-library and curl-users mailing lists.
-- The security web page on the web site should get the new vulnerability
+- The security web page on the website should get the new vulnerability
mentioned.
curl-security (at haxx dot se)
curl -u user:password http://example.org/
You need to pay attention that this kind of HTTP authentication is not what
- is usually done and requested by user-oriented web sites these days. They
+ is usually done and requested by user-oriented websites these days. They
tend to use forms and cookies instead.
2.5 Path part
4.1 Forms explained
- Forms are the general way a web site can present a HTML page with fields for
+ Forms are the general way a website can present a HTML page with fields for
the user to enter data in, and then press some kind of 'OK' or 'Submit'
button to get that data sent to the server. The server then typically uses
the posted data to decide how to act. Like using the entered words to search
options. There are ways to circumvent this.
It is worth noting that while this is how HTTP Authentication works, very
- many web sites will not use this concept when they provide logins etc. See
+ many websites will not use this concept when they provide logins etc. See
the Web Login chapter further below for more details on that.
7. More HTTP Headers
advantage of libcurl.
If you end up with other small but still useful example sources, please mail
-them for submission in future packages and on the web site.
+them for submission in future packages and on the website.
BUILDING
*PLEASE* do not use the curl.haxx.se site as a test target for your libcurl
applications/experiments. Even if some of the examples use that site as a URL
at some places, it doesn't mean that the URLs work or that we expect you to
-actually torture our web site with your tests! Thanks.
+actually torture our website with your tests! Thanks.
EXAMPLES
char *base_name = NULL;
printf("\nRTSP request %s\n", VERSION_STR);
- printf(" Project web site: "
+ printf(" Project website: "
"https://github.com/BackupGGCode/rtsprequest\n");
printf(" Requires curl V7.20 or greater\n\n");
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