minor updates to reflect reality better

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Updated: November 2, 2005 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
Updated: Features 11, 2007 (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html)
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libcurl
A free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP,
FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. libcurl supports
HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP
form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file
transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. libcurl
supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos,
HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication,
file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on numerous
platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, HPUX,
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A command line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax.
Since curl uses libcurl, it supports a range of common Internet protocols,
currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, LDAP, DICT, TELNET and FILE.
currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, LDAP, DICT,
TELNET and FILE.
We pronounce curl and cURL with an initial k sound: [kurl].
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improvements and have them inserted in the main sources (of course on the
condition that developers agree on that the fixes are good).
The full list of the more than 450 contributors is found in the docs/THANKS
The full list of the more than 530 contributors is found in the docs/THANKS
file.
curl is developed by a community, with Daniel at the wheel.
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2.2 Does curl work/build with other SSL libraries?
Curl has been written to use OpenSSL or GnuTLS, although there should not be
many problems using a different library. If anyone does "port" curl to use a
different SSL library, we are of course very interested in getting the
patch!
Curl has been written to use OpenSSL, GnuTLS or yassl, although there should
not be many problems using a different library. If anyone does "port" curl
to use a different SSL library, we are of course very interested in getting
the patch!
2.3 Where can I find a copy of LIBEAY32.DLL?
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Similarly, if you use CURLOPT_READDATA you must also specify
CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.
(Provided by Joel DeYoung and Bob Schader)
5.6 What about Keep-Alive or persistent connections?
curl and libcurl have excellent support for persistent connections when
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options to the command line compiler. /MD (linking against MSVCRT dll) seems
to be the most commonly used option.
(Provided by Andrew Francis)
When building an application that uses the static libcurl library, you must
add -DCURL_STATICLIB to your CFLAGS. Otherwise the linker will look for
dynamic import symbols. If you get linker error like "unknown symbol