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This document lists documents that specify standards used by curl, software
that extends curl, web pages with similar utilities and information pages that
describe some of the tools that we use to build/compile/develop curl.
Standards
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RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP
RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
based upload)
RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
- Also, read Netscape's specification at
http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field
RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol
RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
I've left it in this list.
RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations
RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes
RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)
RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management
RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109
Compilers
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MingW32 - http://www.mingw.org/
gcc - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
Software
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OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org/
OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org/
zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
Similar Tools
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wget - http://sunsite.dk/wget/
snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
Kermit - http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient
Pavuk - http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/
httpr - http://zwolak.dhs.org/httpr/
puf - http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~ob6/sw/puf.html
Related Software
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ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses
autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html
bison - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
libtool - http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html