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curl groks URLs

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Possibly more than 500 million users already, I'm sure you can use it as well!

curl is free and open software that compiles and runs under a wide variety of operating systems. curl exists thanks to efforts from many contributors.

The most recent stable version of curl is version 7.37.0, released on 21st of May 2014. Currently, 101 of the listed archives are of the latest version.

Use the curl command line tool or use libcurl from within your own programs.

Found a bug or a flaw? Report a bug!

curl and libcurl survey results June 13 2014

The results from the 2014 survey is now published.

These are the "raw" numbers, analysis and conclusions drawn from this are left to do. Join in and tell us what you think this means!

poll: curl and libcurl usage and project details June 2 2014

The curl project runs the curl and libcurl 2014 poll, asking for your input and feedback on a set of questions around the project, its present and its future.

Feel free to share this link to others who may have a relevant opinion.

The poll is open until midnight June 11th (central european time).

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Recent discussions on the mailing lists
Subject	GMT	Author	Thread	List
HTTP2 warnings	Tuesday 21:03	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	libcurl
SPDY (was RE: curl-library Digest, Vol 1...	Tuesday 19:05	Daniel Stenberg	1	libcurl
[PATCH] SF bug #1302: HTTP Auth Negotiat...	Tuesday 13:35	David Woodhouse	39 first	libcurl
curl-library Digest, Vol 107, Issue 39	Tuesday 11:21	nm	1	libcurl
SPDY (was RE: curl-library Digest, Vol 1...	Tuesday 09:40	Daniel Stenberg	1	libcurl
Fix deadlock patch in "FLUSH" cookie and...	Tuesday 08:52	Yousuke Kimoto	4 first	libcurl
getpwuid_r on Solaris and _POSIX_PTHREAD...	Tuesday 08:32	Tor Arntsen	10 first	libcurl
curl-library Digest, Vol 107, Issue 37	Tuesday 04:58	nm	1	libcurl
Connection getting closed on receiving 4...	Tuesday 04:32	Vivek S	5 first	libcurl
[PATCH] GnuTLS: Work around failure to c...	Monday 20:34	Dan Fandrich	7	libcurl