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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Stenberg
e30b2064b7
docs: fix proselint nits
- remove a lot of exclamation marks
- use consistent spaces (1, not 2)
- use better words at some places

Closes #8123
2021-12-09 23:16:46 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
e28628ffc2
FAQ: we never pronounced it "see URL", we say "kurl" 2021-12-08 10:12:19 +01:00
Bruno Baguette
0d380a853f
FAQ: typo fix : "yout" ➤ "your"
Closes #8059
2021-11-26 14:24:59 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
a28464ae77
docs: reduce/avoid English contractions
You're => You are
Hasn't => Has not
Doesn't => Does not
Don't => Do not
You'll => You will
etc

Closes #7930
2021-11-07 23:16:27 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
92efb3db7e
docs: reduce use of "very"
"Very" should be avoided in most texts. If intensifiers are needed, try
find better words instead.

Closes #7936
2021-11-01 16:13:12 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
5ad23d5c07
FAQ: polish the explanation of libcurl 2021-10-20 09:24:18 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
7aa79dce10
FAQ: add GOPHERS + curl works on data, not files 2021-09-15 14:33:05 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
352b07fcce
FAQ: add two dev related questions
8.1 Why does curl use C89?
  8.2 Will curl be rewritten?

Spell-checked-by: Paul Johnson
Closes #7715
2021-09-14 08:17:42 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
ab2f27cf88
docs: the security list is reached at security at curl.se now
Also update the FAQ section a bit to encourage users to rather submit
security issues on hackerone than sending email.

Closes #7689
2021-09-10 10:51:12 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
b03b82a85f
docs/tests: remove freenode references 2021-05-24 00:21:00 +02:00
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
246399a874
vtls: initial implementation of rustls backend
This adds a new TLS backend, rustls. It uses the C-to-rustls bindings
from https://github.com/abetterinternet/crustls.

Rustls is at https://github.com/ctz/rustls/.

There is still a fair bit to be done, like sending CloseNotify on
connection shutdown, respecting CAPATH, and properly indicating features
like "supports TLS 1.3 ciphersuites." But it works well enough to make
requests and receive responses.

Blog post for context:
https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/memory-safe-curl/

Closes #6350
2021-02-09 11:06:18 +01:00
XhmikosR
aadc75626b
misc: assorted typo fixes
Closes #6375
2020-12-26 23:54:25 +01:00
Dan Fandrich
2a264d494e docs: Fix some typos
[skip ci]
2020-12-12 09:59:28 -08:00
Daniel Stenberg
65bc682524
FAQ: remove "Why is there a HTTP/1.1 in my HTTP/2 request?"
This hasn't been the case for a while now, remove.
2020-11-06 09:28:49 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
3864ad37e1
FAQ: refresh "Why do I get "certificate verify failed"
Add more details, remove references to ancient curl version.
2020-11-06 09:16:06 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
490879ea89
FAQ: refreshed
- remove a few ancient questions
 - add configure with static libs question
 - updated wording in several places
 - lowercased curl

Closes #6177
2020-11-05 16:54:12 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
afbf7d260c docs: Fix various typos in documentation
Closes #6171
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
2020-11-05 09:36:24 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
4d2f800677
curl.se: new home
Closes #6172
2020-11-04 23:59:47 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
d63b3908da
FAQ: refreshed some very old language 2020-09-07 17:08:07 +02:00
H3RSKO
3d221409e2
docs: change "web site" to "website"
According to wikipedia:

 While "web site" was the original spelling, this variant has become
 rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling

Closes #5822
2020-08-17 00:14:18 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
72b1aaf9da
docs: unify protocol lists
We boast support for 25 transfer protocols. Make sure the lists are
consistent

Closes #5384
2020-05-13 16:51:19 +02:00
Michael Forney
9b879160df
TLS: add BearSSL vtls implementation
Closes #4597
2019-11-26 08:32:23 +01:00
dbrowndan
84086b39c1
FAQ: more minor updates and spelling fixes
Closes #3937
2019-05-25 23:33:53 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
1640bb6fc2
FAQ: minor updates and spelling fixes 2019-02-28 09:09:51 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
b3d111ae15 FAQ: remove mention of sourceforge for github
The project bug tracker is no longer hosted at sourceforge but is now
hosted on the curl Github page. Update the FAQ to reflect.

Closes #3410
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
2018-12-25 23:20:55 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
302d125b42
axtls: removed
As has been outlined in the DEPRECATE.md document, the axTLS code has
been disabled for 6 months and is hereby removed.

Use a better supported TLS library!

Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Closes #3194
2018-11-01 10:29:53 +01:00
Viktor Szakats
ff9d7f4447 spelling fixes [ci skip]
as detected by codespell 1.14.0

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3114
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad <Marcel.Raad@teamviewer.com>
2018-10-08 19:37:40 +00:00
Viktor Szakats
f078361c0e URL and mailmap updates, remove an obsolete directory [ci skip]
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3031
2018-09-22 07:58:32 +00:00
Viktor Szakats
62a71af6d3 FAQ: fix a broken URL [ci skip] 2018-03-12 18:17:05 +00:00
Viktor Szakats
7e35eb7729 spelling fixes
Detected using the `codespell` tool.

Also contains one URL protocol upgrade.

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2334
2018-02-23 23:29:01 +00:00
Daniel Stenberg
7f555dc5a4
FAQ: s/CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION/CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION 2017-10-09 16:13:27 +02:00
Viktor Szakats
13ef623a81
docs/comments: Update to secure URL versions
Closes #1741
2017-08-08 21:41:07 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
73a2fcea0b includes: remove curl/curlbuild.h and curl/curlrules.h
Rely entirely on curl/system.h now.

Introduced in Aug 2008 with commit 14240e9e10. Now gone.

Fixes #1456
2017-06-14 11:07:33 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
6d49695bca FAQ: add 7.4 to toc
... and delete trailing whitespace

Fixes #1484
2017-05-12 19:58:06 +02:00
Sylvestre Ledru
658b9a200a fix some typos in the doc (#1306) 2017-03-04 15:50:33 +01:00
railsnewbie257
cd6b99ef32 docs: FAQ MAIL-ETIQUETTE language fixes
Closes #1194
2017-01-13 10:11:58 +01:00
Jay Satiro
ee3c83f39c tool_operate: Fix --remote-time incorrect times on Windows
- Use Windows API SetFileTime to set the file time instead of utime.

Avoid utime on Windows if possible because it may apply a daylight
saving time offset to our UTC file time.

Bug: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2016-11/0033.html
Reported-by: Tim

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1121
2016-12-28 21:19:40 -05:00
Daniel Stenberg
0f1996321f s/cURL/curl
The tool was never called cURL, only the project. But even so, we have
more and more over time switched to just use lower case.
2016-10-18 13:59:54 +02:00
Stephen Brokenshire
2a1d538963 FAQ: Fix typos in section 5.14 (#1047)
Type required for YourClass::func C++ function (using size_t in line
with the documentation for CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION) and missing second
colon when specifying the static function for CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION.
2016-10-01 17:36:50 +02:00
Bill Nagel
497e7c9d34 mbedtls: Added support for NTLM 2016-08-03 19:33:59 +01:00
Jay Satiro
f9eed596a3 FAQ: Update FTP directory listing section for MLSD command
Explain how some FTP servers support the machine readable listing
format MLSD from RFC 3659 and compare it to LIST.

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/906
2016-07-09 03:05:55 -04:00
Jay Satiro
befa21f2cd FAQ: refer to thread safety guidelines 2016-05-05 14:34:27 -04:00
Daniel Stenberg
9c2cbc104d FAQ: 2.5 Install libcurl for both 32bit and 64bit? 2016-03-18 08:14:05 +01:00
Viktor Szakats
d49881cb19 URLs: change more http to https 2016-02-04 18:46:54 -05:00
Viktor Szakats
20dcd19501 URLs: follow GitHub project rename (also Travis CI)
Closes #632
2016-02-04 23:01:38 +01:00
Dan Fandrich
093f9cd38d URLs: Change more haxx.se URLs from http: to https: 2016-02-03 01:45:21 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
6b485c7407 HTTPS: update a bunch of URLs from HTTP to HTTPS 2016-02-02 00:24:30 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
14f92f2d2c FAQ: language fix in 4.19 2016-01-25 11:11:29 +01:00
paulehoffman
53d1e42c41 FAQ: Update to point to GitHub
Current FAQ didn't make it clear where the main repo is.

Closes #612
2016-01-24 23:29:01 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
b82359643d FAQ: clarify who to mail about ECCN clarifications 2016-01-04 18:59:29 +01:00