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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2000-05-22 17:33:31 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2000-05-22 17:33:31 +0000
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-BUGS
-
- Curl has grown substantially from that day, several years ago, when I
- started fiddling with it. When I write this, there are 16500 lines of source
- code, and by the time you read this it has probably grown even more.
-
- Of course there are lots of bugs left. And lots of misfeatures.
-
- To help us make curl the stable and solid product we want it to be, we need
- bug reports and bug fixes. If you can't fix a bug yourself and submit a fix
- for it, try to report an as detailed report as possible to the curl mailing
- list to allow one of us to have a go at a solution. You should also post
- your bug/problem at curl's bug tracking system over at
-
- http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?group_id=976
-
- When reporting a bug, you should include information that will help us
- understand what's wrong, what's expected and how to repeat it. You therefore
- need to supply your operating system's name and version number (uname -a
- under a unix is fine), what version of curl you're using (curl -v is fine),
- what URL you were working with and anything else you think matters.
-
- If curl crashed, causing a core dump (in unix), there is hardly any use to
- send that huge file to anyone of us. Unless we have an exact same system
- setup as you, we can't do much with it. What we instead ask of you is to get
- a stack trace and send that (much smaller) output to us instead!
-
- The address and how to subscribe to the mailing list is detailed in the
- README.curl file.
-
- HOW TO GET A STACK TRACE with a common unix debugger
- ====================================================
-
- First, you must make sure that you compile all sources with -g and that you
- don't 'strip' the final executable.
-
- Run the program until it bangs.
-
- Run your debugger on the core file, like '<debugger> curl core'. <debugger>
- should be replaced with the name of your debugger, in most cases that will
- be 'gdb', but 'dbx' and others also occur.
-
- When the debugger has finished loading the core file and presents you a
- prompt, you can give the compiler instructions. Enter 'where' (without the
- quotes) and press return.
-
- The list that is presented is the stack trace. If everything worked, it is
- supposed to contain the chain of functions that were called when curl
- crashed.
-
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-CONTRIBUTE
-
-To Think About When Contributing Source Code
-
- This document is intended to offer some guidelines that can be useful to
- keep in mind when you decide to write a contribution to the project. This
- concerns new features as well as corrections to existing flaws or bugs.
-
-Naming
-
- Try using a non-confusing naming scheme for your new functions and variable
- names. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that you should use the same as
- in other places of the code, just that the names should be logical,
- understandable and be named according to what they're used for.
-
-Indenting
-
- Please try using the same indenting levels and bracing method as all the
- other code already does. It makes the source code a lot easier to follow if
- all of it is written using the same style. I don't ask you to like it, I
- just ask you to follow the tradition! ;-)
-
-Commenting
-
- Comment your source code extensively. I don't see myself as a very good
- source commenter, but I try to become one. Commented code is quality code
- and enables future modifications much more. Uncommented code much more risk
- being completely replaced when someone wants to extend things, since other
- persons' source code can get quite hard to read.
-
-General Style
-
- Keep your functions small. If they're small you avoid a lot of mistakes and
- you don't accidentally mix up variables.
-
-Non-clobbering All Over
-
- When you write new functionality or fix bugs, it is important that you
- don't fiddle all over the source files and functions. Remember that it is
- likely that other people have done changes in the same source files as you
- have and possibly even in the same functions. If you bring completely new
- functionality, try writing it in a new source file. If you fix bugs, try to
- fix one bug at a time and send them as separate patches.
-
-Separate Patches Doing Different Things
-
- It is annoying when you get a huge patch from someone that is said to fix 511
- odd problems, but discussions and opinions don't agree with 510 of them - or
- 509 of them were already fixed in a different way. Then the patcher needs to
- extract the single interesting patch from somewhere within the huge pile of
- source, and that gives a lot of extra work. Preferably, all fixes that
- correct different problems should be in their own patch with an attached
- description exactly what they correct so that all patches can be selectively
- applied by the maintainer or other interested parties.
-
-Document
-
- Writing docs is dead boring and one of the big problems with many open
- source projects. Someone's gotta do it. It makes it a lot easier if you
- submit a small description of your fix or your new features with every
- contribution so that it can be swiftly added to the package documentation.
-
-Write Access to CVS Repository
-
- If you are a frequent contributor, or have another good reason, you can of
- course get write access to the CVS repository and then you'll be able to
- check-in all your changes straight into the CVS tree instead of sending all
- changes by mail as patches. Just ask if this is what you'd want.
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-FAQ
-
-Problems connecting to SSL servers.
-===================================
-
- It took a very long time before I could sort out why curl had problems
- to connect to certain SSL servers when using SSLeay or OpenSSL v0.9+.
- The error sometimes showed up similar to:
-
- 16570:error:1407D071:SSL routines:SSL2_READ:bad mac decode:s2_pkt.c:233:
-
- It turned out to be because many older SSL servers don't deal with SSLv3
- requests properly. To correct this problem, tell curl to select SSLv2 from
- the command line (-2/--sslv2).
-
- I have also seen examples where the remote server didn't like the SSLv2
- request and instead you had to force curl to use SSLv3 with -3/--sslv3.
-
-Does curl support resume?
-=========================
-
- Yes. Both ways on FTP, download ways on HTTP.
-
-Is libcurl thread safe?
-=======================
-
- Yes, as far as curl's own code goes. It does use system calls that often
- aren't thread safe in most environments, such as gethostbyname().
-
- I am very interested in once and for all getting some kind of report or
- README file from those who have used libcurl in a threaded environment,
- since I haven't and I get this question more and more frequently!
-
-Why doesn't my posting using -F work?
-=====================================
-
- You can't simply use -F or -d at your choice. The web server that will
- receive your post assumes one of the formats. If the form you're trying to
- "fake" sets the type to 'multipart/form-data', than and only then you must
- use the -F type. In all the most common cases, you should use -d which then
- causes a posting with the type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'.
-
-Does curl support custom FTP commands?
-======================================
-
- Yes it does, you can tell curl to perform optional commands both before
- and/or after a file transfer. Study the -Q/--quote option.
-
- Since curl is used for file transfers, you don't use curl to just perform
- ftp commands without transfering anything. Therefore you must always specify
- a URL to transfer to/from even when doing custom FTP commands.
-
-Does curl work with other SSL libraries?
-========================================
-
- Curl has been written to use OpenSSL, although I doubt there would be much
- problems using a different library. I just don't know any other free one and
- that has limited my possibilities to develop against anything else.
-
- If anyone does "port" curl to use a commercial SSL library, I am of course
- very interested in getting the patch!
-
-configre doesn't find OpenSSL even when it is installed
-=======================================================
-
- Platforms: Solaris (native cc compiler) and HPUX (native cc compiler)
-
- When configuring curl, I specify --with-ssl. OpenSSL is installed in
- /usr/local/ssl Configure reports SSL in /usr/local/ssl, but fails to find
- CRYPTO_lock in -lcrypto
-
- Cause: The cc for this test places the -L/usr/local/ssl/lib AFTER -lcrypto,
- so ld can't find the library. This is due to a bug in the GNU autoconf tool.
-
- Workaround: Specifying "LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/ssl/lib" in front of ./configure
- places the -L/usr/local/ssl/lib early enough in the command line to make
- things work
-
- Submitted by: Bob Allison <allisonb@users.sourceforge.net>
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-FEATURES
-
-Misc
- - full URL syntax
- - custom maximum download time
- - custom least download speed acceptable
- - custom output result after completion
- - multiple URLs
- - guesses protocol from host name unless specified
- - uses .netrc
- - progress bar/time specs while downloading
- - PROXY environment variables support
- - config file support
- - compiles on win32
-
-HTTP
- - GET
- - PUT
- - HEAD
- - POST
- - multipart POST
- - authentication
- - resume
- - follow redirects
- - custom HTTP request
- - cookie get/send
- - understands the netscape cookie file
- - custom headers (that can replace internally generated headers)
- - custom user-agent string
- - custom referer string
- - range
- - proxy authentication
- - time conditions
- - via http-proxy
-
-HTTPS (*1)
- - (all the HTTP features)
- - using certificates
- - via http-proxy
-
-FTP
- - download
- - authentication
- - PORT or PASV
- - single file size information (compare to HTTP HEAD)
- - 'type=' URL support
- - dir listing
- - dir listing names-only
- - upload
- - upload append
- - upload via http-proxy as HTTP PUT
- - download resume
- - upload resume
- - QUOT commands (before and/or after the transfer)
- - simple "range" support
- - via http-proxy
-
-TELNET
- - connection negotiation
- - stdin/stdout I/O
-
-LDAP (*2)
- - full LDAP URL support
-
-DICT
- - extended DICT URL support
-
-GOPHER
- - GET
- - via http-proxy
-
-FILE
- - URL support
-
- *1 = requires OpenSSL
- *2 = requires OpenLDAP
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-
- How To Compile
-
-Curl has been compiled and built on numerous different operating systems. The
-way to proceed is mainly divided in two different ways: the unix way or the
-windows way.
-
-If you're using Windows (95, 98, NT) or OS/2, you should continue reading from
-the Win32 header below. All other systems should be capable of being installed
-as described in the the UNIX header.
-
-PORTS
-=====
- Just to show off, this is a probably incomplete list of known hardware and
- operating systems that curl has been compiled for:
-
- - Ultrix
- - SINIX-Z v5
- Alpha DEC OSF 4
- HP-PA HP-UX 10.X 11.X
- MIPS IRIX 6.2, 6.5
- Power AIX 4.2, 4.3.1
- PowerPC Darwin 1.0
- PowerPC Mac OS X
- Sparc Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7
- Sparc SunOS 4.1.*
- i386 BeOS
- i386 FreeBSD
- i386 Linux 1.3, 2.0, 2.2
- i386 NetBSD
- i386 OS/2
- i386 OpenBSD
- i386 Solaris 2.7
- i386 Windows 95, 98, NT
- m68k AmigaOS 3
- m68k OpenBSD
-
-UNIX
-====
-
- The configure script *always* tries to find a working SSL library unless
- explicitly told not to. If you have OpenSSL installed in the default
- search path for your compiler/linker, you don't need to do anything
- special.
-
- If you have OpenSSL installed in /usr/local/ssl, you can run configure
- like:
-
- ./configure --with-ssl
-
- If you have OpenSSL installed somewhere else (for example, /opt/OpenSSL,)
- you can run configure like this:
-
- ./configure --with-ssl=/opt/OpenSSL
-
- If you insist on forcing a build *without* SSL support, even though you may
- have it installed in your system, you can run configure like this:
-
- ./configure --without-ssl
-
- If you have OpenSSL installed, but with the libraries in one place and the
- header files somewhere else, you'll have to set the LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS
- environment variables prior to running configure. Something like this
- should work:
-
- (with the Bourne shell and its clones):
-
- CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
- ./configure
-
- (with csh, tcsh and their clones):
-
- env CPPFLAGS="-I/path/to/ssl/include" LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/ssl/lib" \
- ./configure
-
- If your SSL library was compiled with rsaref (usually for use in
- the United States), you may also need to set:
-
- LIBS=-lRSAglue -lrsaref
- (from Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net>)
-
- Without SSL support, just run:
-
- ./configure
-
- Then run:
-
- make
-
- Use the executable `curl` in src/ directory.
-
- 'make install' copies the curl file to /usr/local/bin/ (or $prefix/bin
- if you used the --prefix option to configure) and copies the curl.1
- man page to a suitable place too.
-
- KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- If you happen to have autoconf installed, but a version older than
- 2.12 you will get into trouble. Then you can still build curl by
- issuing these commands: (from Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>)
-
- ./configure [...]
- cd lib; make; cd ..
- cd src; make; cd ..
- cp src/curl elsewhere/bin/
-
- OPTIONS
-
- Remember, to force configure to use the standard cc compiler if both
- cc and gcc are present, run configure like
-
- CC=cc ./configure
- or
- env Cc=cc ./configure
-
-
-Win32
-=====
-
- Without SSL:
-
- MingW32 (GCC-2.95) style
- ------------------------
- Run the 'mingw32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables
- set, then run 'make -f Makefile.m32' in the lib/ dir and then
- 'make -f Makefile.m32' in the src/ dir.
-
- If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files,
- be sure to look at the provided "Makefile.m32" files for the proper
- paths, and adjust as necessary.
-
- Cygwin style
- ------------
- Almost identical to the unix installation. Run the configure script
- in the curl root with 'sh configure'. Make sure you have the sh
- executable in /bin/ or you'll see the configure fail towards the
- end.
-
- Run 'make'
-
- Microsoft command line style
- ----------------------------
- Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables
- set, then run 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the lib/ dir and then
- 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the src/ dir.
-
- IDE-style
- -------------------------
- If you use VC++, Borland or similar compilers. Include all lib source
- files in a static lib "project" (all .c and .h files that is).
- (you should name it libcurl or similar)
-
- Make the sources in the src/ drawer be a "win32 console application"
- project. Name it curl.
-
- With VC++, add 'wsock32.lib' to the link libs when you build curl!
- Borland seems to do that itself magically. Of course you have to
- make sure it links with the libcurl too!
-
- For VC++ 6, there's an included Makefile.vc6 that should be possible
- to use out-of-the-box.
-
- Microsoft note: add /Zm200 to the compiler options, as the hugehelp.c
- won't compile otherwise due to "too long puts string" or something
- like that!
-
-
- With SSL:
-
- MingW32 (GCC-2.95) style
- ------------------------
- Run the 'mingw32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables
- set, then run 'make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1' in the lib/ dir and then
- 'make -f Makefile.m32 SSL=1' in the src/ dir.
-
- If you have any problems linking libraries or finding header files,
- be sure to look at the provided "Makefile.m32" files for the proper
- paths, and adjust as necessary.
-
- Cygwin style
- ------------
-
- Haven't done, nor got any reports on how to do. It should although be
- identical to the unix setup for the same purpose. See above.
-
- Microsoft command line style
- ----------------------------
- Run the 'vcvars32.bat' file to get the proper environment variables
- set, then run 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6 release-ssl' in the lib/ dir and
- then 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the src/ dir.
-
- Microsoft / Borland style
- -------------------------
- If you have OpenSSL, and want curl to take advantage of it, edit your
- project properties to use the SSL include path, link with the SSL libs
- and define the USE_SSLEAY symbol.
-
-
-IBM OS/2
-========
-
- Building under OS/2 is not much different from building under unix.
- You need:
-
- - emx 0.9d
- - GNU make
- - GNU patch
- - ksh
- - GNU bison
- - GNU file utilities
- - GNU sed
- - autoconf 2.13
-
- If you want to build with OpenSSL or OpenLDAP support, you'll need to
- download those libraries, too. Dirk Ohme has done some work to port SSL
- libraries under OS/2, but it looks like he doesn't care about emx. You'll
- find his patches on: http://come.to/Dirk.Ohme
-
- If during the linking you get an error about _errno being an undefined
- symbol referenced from the text segment, you need to add -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__
- in your definitions.
-
- If everything seems to work fine but there's no curl.exe, you need to add
- -Zexe to your linker flags.
-
- If you're getting huge binaries, probably your makefiles have the -g in
- CFLAGS.
-
-OpenSSL
-=======
-
- You'll find OpenSSL information at:
-
- http://www.openssl.org
-
-
-MingW32/Cygwin
-==============
-
- You'll find MingW32 and Cygwin information at:
-
- http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/index.html
-
-OpenLDAP
-========
-
- You'll find OpenLDAP information at:
-
- http://www.openldap.org
-
- You need to install it with shared libraries, which is enabled when running
- the ldap configure script with "--enable-shared". With my linux 2.0.36
- kernel I also had to disable using threads (with --without-threads),
- because the configure script couldn't figure out my system.
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-INTERNALS
-
- The project is kind of split in two. The library and the client. The client
- part uses the library, but the library is meant to be designed to allow other
- applications to use it.
-
- Thus, the largest amount of code and complexity is in the library part.
-
-Windows vs Unix
-===============
-
- There are a few differences in how to program curl the unix way compared to
- the Windows way. The four most notable details are:
-
- 1. Different function names for close(), read(), write()
- 2. Windows requires a couple of init calls
- 3. The file descriptors for network communication and file operations are
- not easily interchangable as in unix
- 4. When writing data to stdout, Windows makes end-of-lines the DOS way, thus
- destroying binary data, although you do want that conversion if it is
- text coming through... (sigh)
-
- In curl, (1) and (2) are done with defines and macros, so that the source
- looks the same at all places except for the header file that defines them.
-
- (3) is simply avoided by not trying any funny tricks on file descriptors.
-
- (4) is left alone, giving windows users problems when they pipe binary data
- through stdout...
-
- Inside the source code, I do make an effort to avoid '#ifdef WIN32'. All
- conditionals that deal with features *should* instead be in the format
- '#ifdef HAVE_THAT_WEIRD_FUNCTION'. Since Windows can't run configure scripts,
- I maintain two config-win32.h files (one in / and one in src/) that are
- supposed to look exactly as a config.h file would have looked like on a
- Windows machine!
-
-Library
-=======
-
- There is a few entry points to the library, namely each publicly defined
- function that libcurl offers to applications. All of those functions are
- rather small and easy-to-follow, accept the one single and do-it-all named
- curl_urlget() (entry point in lib/url.c).
-
- curl_urlget() takes a variable amount of arguments, and they must all be
- passed in pairs, the parameter-ID and the parameter-value. The list of
- arguments must be ended with a end-of-arguments parameter-ID.
-
- The function then continues to analyze the URL, get the different components
- and connects to the remote host. This may involve using a proxy and/or using
- SSL. The GetHost() function in lib/hostip.c is used for looking up host
- names.
-
- When connected, the proper function is called. The functions are named after
- the protocols they handle. ftp(), http(), dict(), etc. They all reside in
- their respective files (ftp.c, http.c and dict.c).
-
- The protocol-specific functions deal with protocol-specific negotiations and
- setup. They have access to the sendf() (from lib/sendf.c) function to send
- printf-style formatted data to the remote host and when they're ready to make
- the actual file transfer they call the Transfer() function (in
- lib/download.c) to do the transfer. All printf()-style functions use the
- supplied clones in lib/mprintf.c.
-
- While transfering, the progress functions in lib/progress.c are called at a
- frequent interval. The speedcheck functions in lib/speedcheck.c are also used
- to verify that the transfer is as fast as required.
-
- When the operation is done, the writeout() function in lib/writeout.c may be
- called to report about the operation as specified previously in the arguments
- to curl_urlget().
-
- HTTP(S)
-
- HTTP offers a lot and is the protocol in curl that uses the most lines of
- code. There is a special file (lib/formdata.c) that offers all the multipart
- post functions.
-
- base64-functions for user+password stuff is in (lib/base64.c) and all
- functions for parsing and sending cookies are found in
- (lib/cookie.c).
-
- HTTPS uses in almost every means the same procedure as HTTP, with only two
- exceptions: the connect procedure is different and the function used
-
- FTP
-
- The if2ip() function can be used for getting the IP number of a specified
- network interface, and it resides in lib/if2ip.c
-
- TELNET
-
- Telnet is implemented in lib/telnet.c.
-
- FILE
-
- The file:// protocol is dealt with in lib/file.c.
-
- LDAP
-
- Everything LDAP is in lib/ldap.c.
-
- GENERAL
-
- URL encoding and decoding, called escaping and unescaping in the source code,
- is found in lib/escape.c.
-
- While transfering data in Transfer() a few functions might get
- used. get_date() in lib/getdate.c is for HTTP date comparisons.
-
- lib/getenv.c is for reading environment variables in a neat platform
- independent way. That's used in the client, but also in lib/url.c when
- checking the PROXY variables.
-
- lib/netrc.c keeps the .netrc parser
-
- lib/timeval.c features replacement functions for systems that don't have
-
- A function named curl_version() that returns the full curl version string is
- found in lib/version.c.
-
-Client
-======
-
- main() resides in src/main.c together with most of the client
- code. src/hugehelp.c is automatically generated by the mkhelp.pl perl script
- to display the complete "manual" and the src/urlglob.c file holds the
- functions used for the multiple-URL support.
-
- The client mostly mess around to setup its config struct properly, then it
- calls the curl_urlget() function in the library and when it gets back control
- it checks status and exits.
-
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-LATEST VERSION
-
- You always find news about what's going on as well as the latest versions
- from the curl web pages, located at:
-
- http://curl.haxx.nu
-
-SIMPLE USAGE
-
- Get the main page from netscape's web-server:
-
- curl http://www.netscape.com/
-
- Get the root README file from funet's ftp-server:
-
- curl ftp://ftp.funet.fi/README
-
- Get a gopher document from funet's gopher server:
-
- curl gopher://gopher.funet.fi
-
- Get a web page from a server using port 8000:
-
- curl http://www.weirdserver.com:8000/
-
- Get a list of the root directory of an FTP site:
-
- curl ftp://ftp.fts.frontec.se/
-
- Get the definition of curl from a dictionary:
-
- curl dict://dict.org/m:curl
-
-DOWNLOAD TO A FILE
-
- Get a web page and store in a local file:
-
- curl -o thatpage.html http://www.netscape.com/
-
- Get a web page and store in a local file, make the local file get the name
- of the remote document (if no file name part is specified in the URL, this
- will fail):
-
- curl -O http://www.netscape.com/index.html
-
-USING PASSWORDS
-
- FTP
-
- To ftp files using name+passwd, include them in the URL like:
-
- curl ftp://name:passwd@machine.domain:port/full/path/to/file
-
- or specify them with the -u flag like
-
- curl -u name:passwd ftp://machine.domain:port/full/path/to/file
-
- HTTP
-
- The HTTP URL doesn't support user and password in the URL string. Curl
- does support that anyway to provide a ftp-style interface and thus you can
- pick a file like:
-
- curl http://name:passwd@machine.domain/full/path/to/file
-
- or specify user and password separately like in
-
- curl -u name:passwd http://machine.domain/full/path/to/file
-
- NOTE! Since HTTP URLs don't support user and password, you can't use that
- style when using Curl via a proxy. You _must_ use the -u style fetch
- during such circumstances.
-
- HTTPS
-
- Probably most commonly used with private certificates, as explained below.
-
- GOPHER
-
- Curl features no password support for gopher.
-
-PROXY
-
- Get an ftp file using a proxy named my-proxy that uses port 888:
-
- curl -x my-proxy:888 ftp://ftp.leachsite.com/README
-
- Get a file from a HTTP server that requires user and password, using the
- same proxy as above:
-
- curl -u user:passwd -x my-proxy:888 http://www.get.this/
-
- Some proxies require special authentication. Specify by using -U as above:
-
- curl -U user:passwd -x my-proxy:888 http://www.get.this/
-
- See also the environment variables Curl support that offer further proxy
- control.
-
-RANGES
-
- With HTTP 1.1 byte-ranges were introduced. Using this, a client can request
- to get only one or more subparts of a specified document. Curl supports
- this with the -r flag.
-
- Get the first 100 bytes of a document:
-
- curl -r 0-99 http://www.get.this/
-
- Get the last 500 bytes of a document:
-
- curl -r -500 http://www.get.this/
-
- Curl also supports simple ranges for FTP files as well. Then you can only
- specify start and stop position.
-
- Get the first 100 bytes of a document using FTP:
-
- curl -r 0-99 ftp://www.get.this/README
-
-UPLOADING
-
- FTP
-
- Upload all data on stdin to a specified ftp site:
-
- curl -t ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
-
- Upload data from a specified file, login with user and password:
-
- curl -T uploadfile -u user:passwd ftp://ftp.upload.com/myfile
-
- Upload a local file to the remote site, and use the local file name remote
- too:
-
- curl -T uploadfile -u user:passwd ftp://ftp.upload.com/
-
- Upload a local file to get appended to the remote file using ftp:
-
- curl -T localfile -a ftp://ftp.upload.com/remotefile
-
- NOTE: Curl does not support ftp upload through a proxy! The reason for this
- is simply that proxies are seldomly configured to allow this and that no
- author has supplied code that makes it possible!
-
- HTTP
-
- Upload all data on stdin to a specified http site:
-
- curl -t http://www.upload.com/myfile
-
- Note that the http server must've been configured to accept PUT before this
- can be done successfully.
-
- For other ways to do http data upload, see the POST section below.
-
-VERBOSE / DEBUG
-
- If curl fails where it isn't supposed to, if the servers don't let you
- in, if you can't understand the responses: use the -v flag to get VERBOSE
- fetching. Curl will output lots of info and all data it sends and
- receives in order to let the user see all client-server interaction.
-
- curl -v ftp://ftp.upload.com/
-
-DETAILED INFORMATION
-
- Different protocols provide different ways of getting detailed information
- about specific files/documents. To get curl to show detailed information
- about a single file, you should use -I/--head option. It displays all
- available info on a single file for HTTP and FTP. The HTTP information is a
- lot more extensive.
-
- For HTTP, you can get the header information (the same as -I would show)
- shown before the data by using -i/--include. Curl understands the
- -D/--dump-header option when getting files from both FTP and HTTP, and it
- will then store the headers in the specified file.
-
- Store the HTTP headers in a separate file:
-
- curl --dump-header headers.txt curl.haxx.nu
-
- Note that headers stored in a separate file can be very useful at a later
- time if you want curl to use cookies sent by the server. More about that in
- the cookies section.
-
-POST (HTTP)
-
- It's easy to post data using curl. This is done using the -d <data>
- option. The post data must be urlencoded.
-
- Post a simple "name" and "phone" guestbook.
-
- curl -d "name=Rafael%20Sagula&phone=3320780" \
- http://www.where.com/guest.cgi
-
- How to post a form with curl, lesson #1:
-
- Dig out all the <input> tags in the form that you want to fill in. (There's
- a perl program called formfind.pl on the curl site that helps with this).
-
- If there's a "normal" post, you use -d to post. -d takes a full "post
- string", which is in the format
-
- <variable1>=<data1>&<variable2>=<data2>&...
-
- The 'variable' names are the names set with "name=" in the <input> tags, and
- the data is the contents you want to fill in for the inputs. The data *must*
- be properly URL encoded. That means you replace space with + and that you
- write weird letters with %XX where XX is the hexadecimal representation of
- the letter's ASCII code.
-
- Example:
-
- (page located at http://www.formpost.com/getthis/
-
- <form action="post.cgi" method="post">
- <input name=user size=10>
- <input name=pass type=password size=10>
- <input name=id type=hidden value="blablabla">
- <input name=ding value="submit">
- </form>
-
- We want to enter user 'foobar' with password '12345'.
-
- To post to this, you enter a curl command line like:
-
- curl -d "user=foobar&pass=12345&id=blablabla&dig=submit" (continues)
- http://www.formpost.com/getthis/post.cgi
-
-
- While -d uses the application/x-www-form-urlencoded mime-type, generally
- understood by CGI's and similar, curl also supports the more capable
- multipart/form-data type. This latter type supports things like file upload.
-
- -F accepts parameters like -F "name=contents". If you want the contents to
- be read from a file, use <@filename> as contents. When specifying a file,
- you can also specify which content type the file is, by appending
- ';type=<mime type>' to the file name. You can also post contents of several
- files in one field. So that the field name 'coolfiles' can be sent three
- files with different content types in a manner similar to:
-
- curl -F "coolfiles=@fil1.gif;type=image/gif,fil2.txt,fil3.html" \
- http://www.post.com/postit.cgi
-
- If content-type is not specified, curl will try to guess from the extension
- (it only knows a few), or use the previously specified type (from an earlier
- file if several files are specified in a list) or finally using the default
- type 'text/plain'.
-
- Emulate a fill-in form with -F. Let's say you fill in three fields in a
- form. One field is a file name which to post, one field is your name and one
- field is a file description. We want to post the file we have written named
- "cooltext.txt". To let curl do the posting of this data instead of your
- favourite browser, you have to check out the HTML of the form page to get to
- know the names of the input fields. In our example, the input field names are
- 'file', 'yourname' and 'filedescription'.
-
- curl -F "file=@cooltext.txt" -F "yourname=Daniel" \
- -F "filedescription=Cool text file with cool text inside" \
- http://www.post.com/postit.cgi
-
- So, to send two files in one post you can do it in two ways:
-
- 1. Send multiple files in a single "field" with a single field name:
-
- curl -F "pictures=@dog.gif,cat.gif"
-
- 2. Send two fields with two field names:
-
- curl -F "docpicture=@dog.gif" -F "catpicture=@cat.gif"
-
-REFERER
-
- A HTTP request has the option to include information about which address
- that referred to actual page, and curl allows the user to specify that
- referrer to get specified on the command line. It is especially useful to
- fool or trick stupid servers or CGI scripts that rely on that information
- being available or contain certain data.
-
- curl -e www.coolsite.com http://www.showme.com/
-
-USER AGENT
-
- A HTTP request has the option to include information about the browser
- that generated the request. Curl allows it to be specified on the command
- line. It is especially useful to fool or trick stupid servers or CGI
- scripts that only accept certain browsers.
-
- Example:
-
- curl -A 'Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)' http://www.nationsbank.com/
-
- Other common strings:
- 'Mozilla/3.0 (Win95; I)' Netscape Version 3 for Windows 95
- 'Mozilla/3.04 (Win95; U)' Netscape Version 3 for Windows 95
- 'Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; U)' Netscape Version 2 for OS/2
- 'Mozilla/4.04 [en] (X11; U; AIX 4.2; Nav)' NS for AIX
- 'Mozilla/4.05 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.32 i586)' NS for Linux
-
- Note that Internet Explorer tries hard to be compatible in every way:
- 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)' MSIE for W95
-
- Mozilla is not the only possible User-Agent name:
- 'Konqueror/1.0' KDE File Manager desktop client
- 'Lynx/2.7.1 libwww-FM/2.14' Lynx command line browser
-
-COOKIES
-
- Cookies are generally used by web servers to keep state information at the
- client's side. The server sets cookies by sending a response line in the
- headers that looks like 'Set-Cookie: <data>' where the data part then
- typically contains a set of NAME=VALUE pairs (separated by semicolons ';'
- like "NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2;"). The server can also specify for what
- path the "cookie" should be used for (by specifying "path=value"), when the
- cookie should expire ("expire=DATE"), for what domain to use it
- ("domain=NAME") and if it should be used on secure connections only
- ("secure").
-
- If you've received a page from a server that contains a header like:
- Set-Cookie: sessionid=boo123; path="/foo";
-
- it means the server wants that first pair passed on when we get anything in
- a path beginning with "/foo".
-
- Example, get a page that wants my name passed in a cookie:
-
- curl -b "name=Daniel" www.sillypage.com
-
- Curl also has the ability to use previously received cookies in following
- sessions. If you get cookies from a server and store them in a file in a
- manner similar to:
-
- curl --dump-header headers www.example.com
-
- ... you can then in a second connect to that (or another) site, use the
- cookies from the 'headers' file like:
-
- curl -b headers www.example.com
-
- Note that by specifying -b you enable the "cookie awareness" and with -L
- you can make curl follow a location: (which often is used in combination
- with cookies). So that if a site sends cookies and a location, you can
- use a non-existing file to trig the cookie awareness like:
-
- curl -L -b empty-file www.example.com
-
- The file to read cookies from must be formatted using plain HTTP headers OR
- as netscape's cookie file. Curl will determine what kind it is based on the
- file contents.
-
-PROGRESS METER
-
- The progress meter exists to show a user that something actually is
- happening. The different fields in the output have the following meaning:
-
- % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
- Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
- 0 151M 0 38608 0 0 9406 0 4:41:43 0:00:04 4:41:39 9287
-
- From left-to-right:
- % - percentage completed of the whole transfer
- Total - total size of the whole expected transfer
- % - percentage completed of the download
- Received - currently downloaded amount of bytes
- % - percentage completed of the upload
- Xferd - currently uploaded amount of bytes
- Average Speed
- Dload - the average transfer speed of the download
- Average Speed
- Upload - the average transfer speed of the upload
- Time Total - expected time to complete the operation
- Time Current - time passed since the invoke
- Time Left - expected time left to completetion
- Curr.Speed - the average transfer speed the last 5 seconds (the first
- 5 seconds of a transfer is based on less time of course.)
-
- The -# option will display a totally different progress bar that doesn't
- need much explanation!
-
-SPEED LIMIT
-
- Curl offers the user to set conditions regarding transfer speed that must
- be met to let the transfer keep going. By using the switch -y and -Y you
- can make curl abort transfers if the transfer speed doesn't exceed your
- given lowest limit for a specified time.
-
- To let curl abandon downloading this page if its slower than 3000 bytes per
- second for 1 minute, run:
-
- curl -y 3000 -Y 60 www.far-away-site.com
-
- This can very well be used in combination with the overall time limit, so
- that the above operatioin must be completed in whole within 30 minutes:
-
- curl -m 1800 -y 3000 -Y 60 www.far-away-site.com
-
-CONFIG FILE
-
- Curl automatically tries to read the .curlrc file (or _curlrc file on win32
- systems) from the user's home dir on startup. The config file should be
- made up with normal command line switches. Comments can be used within the
- file. If the first letter on a line is a '#'-letter the rest of the line
- is treated as a comment.
-
- Example, set default time out and proxy in a config file:
-
- # We want a 30 minute timeout:
- -m 1800
- # ... and we use a proxy for all accesses:
- -x proxy.our.domain.com:8080
-
- White spaces ARE significant at the end of lines, but all white spaces
- leading up to the first characters of each line are ignored.
-
- Prevent curl from reading the default file by using -q as the first command
- line parameter, like:
-
- curl -q www.thatsite.com
-
- Force curl to get and display a local help page in case it is invoked
- without URL by making a config file similar to:
-
- # default url to get
- http://help.with.curl.com/curlhelp.html
-
- You can specify another config file to be read by using the -K/--config
- flag. If you set config file name to "-" it'll read the config from stdin,
- which can be handy if you want to hide options from being visible in process
- tables etc:
-
- echo "-u user:passwd" | curl -K - http://that.secret.site.com
-
-EXTRA HEADERS
-
- When using curl in your own very special programs, you may end up needing
- to pass on your own custom headers when getting a web page. You can do
- this by using the -H flag.
-
- Example, send the header "X-you-and-me: yes" to the server when getting a
- page:
-
- curl -H "X-you-and-me: yes" www.love.com
-
- This can also be useful in case you want curl to send a different text in
- a header than it normally does. The -H header you specify then replaces the
- header curl would normally send.
-
-FTP and PATH NAMES
-
- Do note that when getting files with the ftp:// URL, the given path is
- relative the directory you enter. To get the file 'README' from your home
- directory at your ftp site, do:
-
- curl ftp://user:passwd@my.site.com/README
-
- But if you want the README file from the root directory of that very same
- site, you need to specify the absolute file name:
-
- curl ftp://user:passwd@my.site.com//README
-
- (I.e with an extra slash in front of the file name.)
-
-FTP and firewalls
-
- The FTP protocol requires one of the involved parties to open a second
- connction as soon as data is about to get transfered. There are two ways to
- do this.
-
- The default way for curl is to issue the PASV command which causes the
- server to open another port and await another connection performed by the
- client. This is good if the client is behind a firewall that don't allow
- incoming connections.
-
- curl ftp.download.com
-
- If the server for example, is behind a firewall that don't allow connections
- on other ports than 21 (or if it just doesn't support the PASV command), the
- other way to do it is to use the PORT command and instruct the server to
- connect to the client on the given (as parameters to the PORT command) IP
- number and port.
-
- The -P flag to curl allows for different options. Your machine may have
- several IP-addresses and/or network interfaces and curl allows you to select
- which of them to use. Default address can also be used:
-
- curl -P - ftp.download.com
-
- Download with PORT but use the IP address of our 'le0' interface:
-
- curl -P le0 ftp.download.com
-
- Download with PORT but use 192.168.0.10 as our IP address to use:
-
- curl -P 192.168.0.10 ftp.download.com
-
-HTTPS
-
- Secure HTTP requires SSL libraries to be installed and used when curl is
- built. If that is done, curl is capable of retrieving and posting documents
- using the HTTPS procotol.
-
- Example:
-
- curl https://www.secure-site.com
-
- Curl is also capable of using your personal certificates to get/post files
- from sites that require valid certificates. The only drawback is that the
- certificate needs to be in PEM-format. PEM is a standard and open format to
- store certificates with, but it is not used by the most commonly used
- browsers (Netscape and MSEI both use the so called PKCS#12 format). If you
- want curl to use the certificates you use with your (favourite) browser, you
- may need to download/compile a converter that can convert your browser's
- formatted certificates to PEM formatted ones. This kind of converter is
- included in recent versions of OpenSSL, and for older versions Dr Stephen
- N. Henson has written a patch for SSLeay that adds this functionality. You
- can get his patch (that requires an SSLeay installation) from his site at:
- http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/
-
- Example on how to automatically retrieve a document using a certificate with
- a personal password:
-
- curl -E /path/to/cert.pem:password https://secure.site.com/
-
- If you neglect to specify the password on the command line, you will be
- prompted for the correct password before any data can be received.
-
- Many older SSL-servers have problems with SSLv3 or TLS, that newer versions
- of OpenSSL etc is using, therefore it is sometimes useful to specify what
- SSL-version curl should use. Use -3 or -2 to specify that exact SSL version
- to use:
-
- curl -2 https://secure.site.com/
-
- Otherwise, curl will first attempt to use v3 and then v2.
-
-RESUMING FILE TRANSFERS
-
- To continue a file transfer where it was previously aborted, curl supports
- resume on http(s) downloads as well as ftp uploads and downloads.
-
- Continue downloading a document:
-
- curl -c -o file ftp://ftp.server.com/path/file
-
- Continue uploading a document(*1):
-
- curl -c -T file ftp://ftp.server.com/path/file
-
- Continue downloading a document from a web server(*2):
-
- curl -c -o file http://www.server.com/
-
- (*1) = This requires that the ftp server supports the non-standard command
- SIZE. If it doesn't, curl will say so.
-
- (*2) = This requires that the wb server supports at least HTTP/1.1. If it
- doesn't, curl will say so.
-
-TIME CONDITIONS
-
- HTTP allows a client to specify a time condition for the document it
- requests. It is If-Modified-Since or If-Unmodified-Since. Curl allow you to
- specify them with the -z/--time-cond flag.
-
- For example, you can easily make a download that only gets performed if the
- remote file is newer than a local copy. It would be made like:
-
- curl -z local.html http://remote.server.com/remote.html
-
- Or you can download a file only if the local file is newer than the remote
- one. Do this by prepending the date string with a '-', as in:
-
- curl -z -local.html http://remote.server.com/remote.html
-
- You can specify a "free text" date as condition. Tell curl to only download
- the file if it was updated since yesterday:
-
- curl -z yesterday http://remote.server.com/remote.html
-
- Curl will then accept a wide range of date formats. You always make the date
- check the other way around by prepending it with a dash '-'.
-
-DICT
-
- For fun try
-
- curl dict://dict.org/m:curl
- curl dict://dict.org/d:heisenbug:jargon
- curl dict://dict.org/d:daniel:web1913
-
- Aliases for 'm' are 'match' and 'find', and aliases for 'd' are 'define'
- and 'lookup'. For example,
-
- curl dict://dict.org/find:curl
-
- Commands that break the URL description of the RFC (but not the DICT
- protocol) are
-
- curl dict://dict.org/show:db
- curl dict://dict.org/show:strat
-
- Authentication is still missing (but this is not required by the RFC)
-
-LDAP
-
- If you have installed the OpenLDAP library, curl can take advantage of it
- and offer ldap:// support.
-
- LDAP is a complex thing and writing an LDAP query is not an easy task. I do
- advice you to dig up the syntax description for that elsewhere, RFC 1959 if
- no other place is better.
-
- To show you an example, this is now I can get all people from my local LDAP
- server that has a certain sub-domain in their email address:
-
- curl -B "ldap://ldap.frontec.se/o=frontec??sub?mail=*sth.frontec.se"
-
- If I want the same info in HTML format, I can get it by not using the -B
- (enforce ASCII) flag.
-
-ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-
- Curl reads and understands the following environment variables:
-
- HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, FTP_PROXY, GOPHER_PROXY
-
- They should be set for protocol-specific proxies. General proxy should be
- set with
-
- ALL_PROXY
-
- A comma-separated list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy is
- set in (only an asterisk, '*' matches all hosts)
-
- NO_PROXY
-
- If a tail substring of the domain-path for a host matches one of these
- strings, transactions with that node will not be proxied.
-
-
- The usage of the -x/--proxy flag overrides the environment variables.
-
-NETRC
-
- Unix introduced the .netrc concept a long time ago. It is a way for a user
- to specify name and password for commonly visited ftp sites in a file so
- that you don't have to type them in each time you visit those sites. You
- realize this is a big security risk if someone else gets hold of your
- passwords, so therefor most unix programs won't read this file unless it is
- only readable by yourself (curl doesn't care though).
-
- Curl supports .netrc files if told so (using the -n/--netrc option). This is
- not restricted to only ftp, but curl can use it for all protocols where
- authentication is used.
-
- A very simple .netrc file could look something like:
-
- machine curl.haxx.nu login iamdaniel password mysecret
-
-CUSTOM OUTPUT
-
- To better allow script programmers to get to know about the progress of
- curl, the -w/--write-out option was introduced. Using this, you can specify
- what information from the previous transfer you want to extract.
-
- To display the amount of bytes downloaded together with some text and an
- ending newline:
-
- curl -w 'We downloaded %{size_download} bytes\n' www.download.com
-
-MAILING LIST
-
- We have an open mailing list to discuss curl, its development and things
- relevant to this.
-
- To subscribe, mail curl-request@contactor.se with "subscribe <your email
- address>" in the body.
-
- To post to the list, mail curl@contactor.se.
-
- To unsubcribe, mail curl-request@contactor.se with "unsubscribe <your
- subscribed email address>" in the body.
-
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- | (_) |__ ___ _ _ _ __| |
- | | | '_ \ / __| | | | '__| |
- | | | |_) | (__| |_| | | | |
- |_|_|_.__/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|
-
-
- How To Use Libcurl In Your Program:
- (by Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>)
-
-NOTE: If you plan to use libcurl.a in Threads under Linux, do not use the old
-gcc-2.7.x because the function 'gethostbyname' seems not to be thread-safe,
-that is to say an unavoidable SEGMENTATION FAULT might occur.
-
-
-1. a) In a C-Program:
- #include "curl.h"
-
- b) In a C++-Program:
- extern "C" {
- #include "curl.h"
- }
-
-2. char *url="http://www.domain.com";
- curl_urlget (URGTAG_URL, url,
- URGTAG_FLAGS, CONF_NOPROGRESS,
- URGTAG_ERRORBUFFER, errorBuffer,
- URGTAG_WRITEFUNCTION, (size_t (*)(void *, int, int, FILE
-*))handle_data,
- URGTAG_TIMEOUT, 30, /* or anything You want */
- ...
- URGTAG_DONE);
-
-3. size_t handle_data (const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nitems,
- FILE *stream)
- {
- (void)stream; /* stop complaining using g++ -Wall */
- if ((int)nitems <= 0) {
- return (size_t)0;
- }
- fprintf(stdout, (char *)ptr); /* or do anything else with it */
- return nitems;
- }
-
-4. Compile Your Program with -I$(CURL_DIR)/include
-
-5. Link Your Program together with $(CURL_DIR)/lib/libcurl.a
-
- Small Example of How To Use libcurl
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-/* Full example that uses libcurl.a to fetch web pages. */
-/* curlthreads.c */
-/* - Test-Program by Ralph Beckmann for using curl in POSIX-Threads */
-/* Change *url1 and *url2 to textual long and slow non-FRAMESET websites! */
-/*
- 1. Compile with gcc or g++ as $(CC):
- $(CC) -c -Wall -pedantic curlthreads.c -I$(CURL_DIR)/include
-
- 2. Link with:
- - Linux:
- $(CC) -o curlthreads curlthreads.o $(CURL_DIR)/lib/libcurl.a -lpthread
--lm
- - Solaris:
- $(CC) -o curlthreads curlthreads.o $(CURL_DIR)/lib/libcurl.a -lpthread
--lm -lsocket -lnsl
-*/
-
-#include <pthread.h>
-#include <stdio.h>
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#include "curl.h"
-}
-#else
-#include "curl.h"
-#endif
-
-size_t storedata (const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nitems, FILE *stream) {
- (void)ptr; (void)stream; /* just to stop g++ -Wall complaining */
- fprintf(stdout, "Thread #%i reads %i Bytes.\n",
- (int)pthread_self(), (int)(nitems*size));
- return (nitems);
-}
-
-void *urlfetcher(void *url) {
- curl_urlget (URGTAG_URL, url,
- URGTAG_FLAGS, CONF_NOPROGRESS | CONF_FAILONERROR,
- URGTAG_WRITEFUNCTION, (size_t (*)(void *, int, int, FILE
-*))storedata,
- URGTAG_DONE);
- return NULL;
-}
-
-int main(void) {
- char *url1="www.sun.com";
- char *url2="www.microsoft.com";
-
- pthread_t thread_id1, thread_id2;
- pthread_create(&thread_id1, NULL, urlfetcher, (void *)url1);
- pthread_create(&thread_id2, NULL, urlfetcher, (void *)url2);
- pthread_join(thread_id1, NULL);
- pthread_join(thread_id2, NULL);
-
- fprintf(stdout, "Ready.\n");
-
- return 0;
-}
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- _ _ ____ _
- Project ___| | | | _ \| |
- / __| | | | |_) | |
- | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
- \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
-
-
-This document has been introduced in order to let you find documents that
-specify standards used by curl, software that extends curl and web pages with
-"competing" utilities.
-
-Standards
-
- RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
-
- 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://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
-
- RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
-
- RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
-
- 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 1867
-
- RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics"
- This one obsoletes 1738, but since 1738 is often mentioned I've left it
- in this list.
-
- RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
- This should be considered when introducing IPv6 awareness.
-
- RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1
-
- RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
-
-Compilers
-
- MingW32 - http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/index.html
-
-Software
-
- OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org
- OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org
- zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
-
-Competitors
-
- wget - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
- 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/
- fetch - ?
-
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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- _ _ ____ _
- ___| | | | _ \| |
- / __| | | | |_) | |
- | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
- \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
-
-TODO
-
- Ok, this is what I wanna do with Curl. Please tell me what you think, and
- please don't hesitate to contribute and send me patches that improve this
- product! (Yes, you may add things not mentioned here, these are just a
- few teasers...)
-
- * rtsp:// support -- "Real Time Streaming Protocol"
-
- RFC 2326
-
- * "Content-Encoding: compress/gzip/zlib"
-
- HTTP 1.1 clearly defines how to get and decode compressed documents. There
- is the zlib that is pretty good at decompressing stuff. This work was
- started in October 1999 but halted again since it proved more work than we
- thought. It is still a good idea to implement though.
-
- * HTTP Pipelining/persistant connections
-
- - We should introduce HTTP "pipelining". Curl could be able to request for
- several HTTP documents in one connect. It would be the beginning for
- supporing more advanced functions in the future, like web site
- mirroring. This will require that the urlget() function supports several
- documents from a single HTTP server, which it doesn't today.
-
- - When curl supports fetching several documents from the same server using
- pipelining, I'd like to offer that function to the command line. Anyone has
- a good idea how? The current way of specifying one URL with the output sent
- to the stdout or a file gets in the way. Imagine a syntax that supports
- "additional documents from the same server" in a way similar to:
-
- curl <main URL> --more-doc <path> --more-doc <path>
-
- where --more-doc specifies another document on the same server. Where are
- the output files gonna be put and how should they be named? Should each
- "--more-doc" parameter require a local file name to store the result in?
- Like "--more-file" as in:
-
- curl <URL> --more-doc <path> --more-file <file>
-
- * RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication"
- A valid test page seem to exist at:
- http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/
- And some friendly person's server source code is available at
- http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html
-
- Then there's the Apache mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as
- if Netscape doesn't support this, and not many servers do. Although this is
- a lot better authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic
- sends the password in cleartext over the network, this "Digest" method uses
- a challange-response protocol which increases security quite a lot.
-
- * Different FTP Upload Through Web Proxy
- I don't know any web proxies that allow CONNECT through on port 21, but
- that would be the best way to do ftp upload. All we would need to do would
- be to 'CONNECT <host>:<port> HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n' and then do business as
- usual. I least I think so. It would be fun if someone tried this...
-
- * Multiple Proxies?
- Is there anyone that actually uses serial-proxies? I mean, send CONNECT to
- the first proxy to connect to the second proxy to which you send CONNECT to
- connect to the remote host (or even more iterations). Is there anyone
- wanting curl to support it? (Not that it would be hard, just confusing...)
-
- * Other proxies
- Ftp-kind proxy, Socks5, whatever kind of proxies are there?
-
- * IPv6 Awareness
- Where ever it would fit. I am not that into v6 yet to fully grasp what we
- would need to do, but letting the autoconf search for v6-versions of a few
- functions and then use them instead is of course the first thing to do...
- RFC 2428 "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" will be interesting. PORT
- should be replaced with EPRT for IPv6, and EPSV instead of PASV.
-
- * An automatic RPM package maker
- Please, write me a script that makes it. It'd make my day.
-
- * SSL for more protocols, like SSL-FTP...
- (http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-05.txt)
-
- * HTTP POST resume using Range:
-
- * Make curl capable of verifying the server's certificate when connecting
- with HTTPS://.
-
- * Make the timeout work as expected!
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-.\" You can view this file with:
-.\" nroff -man curl.1
-.\" Written by Daniel Stenberg
-.\"
-.TH curl 1 "13 March 2000" "Curl 6.5" "Curl Manual"
-.SH NAME
-curl \- get a URL with FTP, TELNET, LDAP, GOPHER, DICT, FILE, HTTP or
-HTTPS syntax.
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B curl [options]
-.I url
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.B curl
-is a client to get documents/files from servers, using any of the
-supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user
-interaction or any kind of interactivity.
-
-curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user
-authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections, cookies, file
-transfer resume and more.
-.SH URL
-The URL syntax is protocol dependent. You'll find a detailed description in
-RFC 2396.
-
-You can specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs by writing part sets within
-braces as in:
-
- http://site.{one,two,three}.com
-
-or you can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using [] as in:
-
- ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
- ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)
- ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt
-
-It is possible to specify up to 9 sets or series for a URL, but no nesting is
-supported at the moment:
-
- http://www.any.org/archive[1996-1999]/volume[1-4]part{a,b,c,index}.html
-.SH OPTIONS
-.IP "-a/--append"
-(FTP)
-When used in a ftp upload, this will tell curl to append to the target
-file instead of overwriting it. If the file doesn't exist, it will
-be created.
-.IP "-A/--user-agent <agent string>"
-(HTTP)
-Specify the User-Agent string to send to the HTTP server. Some badly done CGIs
-fail if its not set to "Mozilla/4.0". To encode blanks in the string,
-surround the string with single quote marks. This can also be set with the
--H/--header flag of course.
-.IP "-b/--cookie <name=data>"
-(HTTP)
-Pass the data to the HTTP server as a cookie. It is supposedly the
-data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line.
-The data should be in the format "NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2".
-
-If no '=' letter is used in the line, it is treated as a filename to use to
-read previously stored cookie lines from, which should be used in this session
-if they match. Using this method also activates the "cookie parser" which
-will make curl record incoming cookies too, which may be handy if you're using
-this in combination with the -L/--location option. The file format of the file
-to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the netscape cookie file
-format.
-
-.B NOTE
-that the file specified with -b/--cookie is only used as input. No cookies
-will be stored in the file. To store cookies, save the HTTP headers to a file
-using -D/--dump-header!
-.IP "-B/--ftp-ascii"
-(FTP/LDAP)
-Use ASCII transfer when getting an FTP file or LDAP info. For FTP, this can
-also be enforced by using an URL that ends with ";type=A".
-.IP "-c/--continue"
-Continue/Resume a previous file transfer. This instructs curl to
-continue appending data on the file where it was previously left,
-possibly because of a broken connection to the server. There must be
-a named physical file to append to for this to work.
-Note: Upload resume is depening on a command named SIZE not always
-present in all ftp servers! Upload resume is for FTP only.
-HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.
-.IP "-C/--continue-at <offset>"
-Continue/Resume a previous file transfer at the given offset. The
-given offset is the exact number of bytes that will be skipped
-counted from the beginning of the source file before it is transfered
-to the destination.
-If used with uploads, the ftp server command SIZE will not be used by
-curl. Upload resume is for FTP only.
-HTTP resume is only possible with HTTP/1.1 or later servers.
-.IP "-d/--data <data>"
-(HTTP)
-Sends the specified data in a POST request to the HTTP server. Note
-that the data is sent exactly as specified with no extra processing.
-The data is expected to be "url-encoded". This will cause curl to
-pass the data to the server using the content-type
-application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Compare to -F.
-
-If you start the data with the letter @, the rest should be a file name to
-read the data from, or - if you want curl to read the data from stdin.
-The contents of the file must already be url-encoded.
-.IP "-D/--dump-header <file>"
-(HTTP/FTP)
-Write the HTTP headers to this file. Write the FTP file info to this
-file if -I/--head is used.
-
-This option is handy to use when you want to store the cookies that a HTTP
-site sends to you. The cookies could then be read in a second curl invoke by
-using the -b/--cookie option!
-.IP "-e/--referer <URL>"
-(HTTP)
-Sends the "Referer Page" information to the HTTP server. Some badly
-done CGIs fail if it's not set. This can also be set with the -H/--header
-flag of course.
-.IP "-E/--cert <certificate[:password]>"
-(HTTPS)
-Tells curl to use the specified certificate file when getting a file
-with HTTPS. The certificate must be in PEM format.
-If the optional password isn't specified, it will be queried for on
-the terminal. Note that this certificate is the private key and the private
-certificate concatenated!
-.IP "-f/--fail"
-(HTTP)
-Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
-like this to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed
-attempts. In normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a
-document, it returns a HTML document stating so (which often also
-describes why and more). This flag will prevent curl from
-outputting that and fail silently instead.
-.IP "-F/--form <name=content>"
-(HTTP)
-This lets curl emulate a filled in form in which a user has pressed
-the submit button. This causes curl to POST data using the
-content-type multipart/form-data according to RFC1867. This enables
-uploading of binary files etc. To force the 'content' part to be
-read from a file, prefix the file name with an @ sign. Example, to
-send your password file to the server, where 'password' is the
-name of the form-field to which /etc/passwd will be the input:
-
-.B curl
--F password=@/etc/passwd www.mypasswords.com
-
-To read the file's content from stdin insted of a file, use - where the file
-name should've been.
-.IP "-h/--help"
-Usage help.
-.IP "-H/--header <header>"
-(HTTP)
-Extra header to use when getting a web page. You may specify any number of
-extra headers. Note that if you should add a custom header that has the same
-name as one of the internal ones curl would use, your externally set header
-will be used instead of the internal one. This allows you to make even
-trickier stuff than curl would normally do. You should not replace internally
-set headers without knowing perfectly well what you're doing.
-.IP "-i/--include"
-(HTTP)
-Include the HTTP-header in the output. The HTTP-header includes things
-like server-name, date of the document, HTTP-version and more...
-.IP "-I/--head"
-(HTTP/FTP)
-Fetch the HTTP-header only! HTTP-servers feature the command HEAD
-which this uses to get nothing but the header of a document. When used
-on a FTP file, curl displays the file size only.
-.IP "-K/--config <config file>"
-Specify which config file to read curl arguments from. The config
-file is a text file in which command line arguments can be written
-which then will be used as if they were written on the actual command
-line. If the first column of a config line is a '#' character, the
-rest of the line will be treated as a comment.
-
-Specify the filename as '-' to make curl read the file from stdin.
-.IP "-l/--list-only"
-(FTP)
-When listing an FTP directory, this switch forces a name-only view.
-Especially useful if you want to machine-parse the contents of an FTP
-directory since the normal directory view doesn't use a standard look
-or format.
-.IP "-L/--location"
-(HTTP/HTTPS)
-If the server reports that the requested page has a different location
-(indicated with the header line Location:) this flag will let curl
-attempt to reattempt the get on the new place. If used together with
--i or -I, headers from all requested pages will be shown.
-.IP "-m/--max-time <seconds>"
-Maximum time in seconds that you allow the whole operation to take.
-This is useful for preventing your batch jobs from hanging for hours
-due to slow networks or links going down.
-This doesn't work properly in win32 systems.
-.IP "-M/--manual"
-Manual. Display the huge help text.
-.IP "-n/--netrc"
-Makes curl scan the
-.I .netrc
-file in the user's home directory for login name and password. This is
-typically used for ftp on unix. If used with http, curl will enable user
-authentication. See
-.BR netrc(5)
-for details on the file format. Curl will not complain if that file
-hasn't the right permissions (it should not be world nor group
-readable). The environment variable "HOME" is used to find the home
-directory.
-
-A quick and very simple example of how to setup a
-.I .netrc
-to allow curl to ftp to the machine host.domain.com with user name
-'myself' and password 'secret' should look similar to:
-
-.B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"
-.IP "-N/--no-buffer"
-Disables the buffering of the output stream. In normal work situations, curl
-will use a standard buffered output stream that will have the effect that it
-will output the data in chunks, not necessarily exactly when the data arrives.
-Using this option will disable that buffering.
-.IP "-o/--output <file>"
-Write output to <file> instead of stdout. If you are using {} or [] to fetch
-multiple documents, you can use '#' followed by a number in the <file>
-specifier. That variable will be replaced with the current string for the URL
-being fetched. Like in:
-
- curl http://{one,two}.site.com -o "file_#1.txt"
-
-or use several variables like:
-
- curl http://{site,host}.host[1-5].com -o "#1_#2"
-.IP "-O/--remote-name"
-Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get. (Only
-the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut off.)
-.IP "-P/--ftpport <address>"
-(FTP)
-Reverses the initiator/listener roles when connecting with ftp. This
-switch makes Curl use the PORT command instead of PASV. In
-practice, PORT tells the server to connect to the client's specified
-address and port, while PASV asks the server for an ip address and
-port to connect to. <address> should be one of:
-.RS
-.TP 12
-.B interface
-i.e "eth0" to specify which interface's IP address you want to use (Unix only)
-.TP
-.B "IP address"
-i.e "192.168.10.1" to specify exact IP number
-.TP
-.B "host name"
-i.e "my.host.domain" to specify machine
-.TP
-.B "-"
-(any single-letter string) to make it pick the machine's default
-.RE
-.IP "-q"
-If used as the first parameter on the command line, the
-.I $HOME/.curlrc
-file will not be read and used as a config file.
-.IP "-Q/--quote <comand>"
-(FTP) Send an arbitrary command to the remote FTP server, by using the QUOTE
-command of the server. Not all servers support this command, and the set of
-QUOTE commands are server specific! Quote commands are sent BEFORE the
-transfer is taking place. To make commands take place after a successful
-transfer, prefix them with a dash '-'. You may specify any amount of commands
-to be run before and after the transfer. If the server returns failure for one
-of the commands, the entire operation will be aborted.
-.IP "-r/--range <range>"
-(HTTP/FTP)
-Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial document) from a HTTP/1.1 or FTP
-server. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.
-.RS
-.TP 10
-.B 0-499
-specifies the first 500 bytes
-.TP
-.B 500-999
-specifies the second 500 bytes
-.TP
-.B -500
-specifies the last 500 bytes
-.TP
-.B 9500
-specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward
-.TP
-.B 0-0,-1
-specifies the first and last byte only(*)(H)
-.TP
-.B 500-700,600-799
-specifies 300 bytes from offset 500(H)
-.TP
-.B 100-199,500-599
-specifies two separate 100 bytes ranges(*)(H)
-.RE
-
-(*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart
-response!
-
-You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this feature
-enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, you'll instead get the whole
-document.
-
-FTP range downloads only support the simple syntax 'start-stop' (optionally
-with one of the numbers omitted). It depends on the non-RFC command SIZE.
-.IP "-s/--silent"
-Silent mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. Makes
-Curl mute.
-.IP "-S/--show-error"
-When used with -s it makes curl show error message if it fails.
-.IP "-t/--upload"
-Transfer the stdin data to the specified file. Curl will read
-everything from stdin until EOF and store with the supplied name. If
-this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT command will be used.
-.IP "-T/--upload-file <file>"
-Like -t, but this transfers the specified local file. If there is no
-file part in the specified URL, Curl will append the local file
-name. NOTE that you must use a trailing / on the last directory to
-really prove to Curl that there is no file name or curl will
-think that your last directory name is the remote file name to
-use. That will most likely cause the upload operation to fail. If
-this is used on a http(s) server, the PUT command will be used.
-.IP "-u/--user <user:password>"
-Specify user and password to use when fetching. See README.curl for detailed
-examples of how to use this. If no password is specified, curl will
-ask for it interactively.
-.IP "-U/--proxy-user <user:password>"
-Specify user and password to use for Proxy authentication. If no
-password is specified, curl will ask for it interactively.
-.IP "-v/--verbose"
-Makes the fetching more verbose/talkative. Mostly usable for
-debugging. Lines starting with '>' means data sent by curl, '<'
-means data received by curl that is hidden in normal cases and lines
-starting with '*' means additional info provided by curl.
-.IP "-V/--version"
-Displays the full version of curl, libcurl and other 3rd party libraries
-linked with the executable.
-.IP "-w/--write-out <format>"
-Defines what to display after a completed and successful operation. The format
-is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of variables. The
-string can be specified as "string", to get read from a particular file you
-specify it "@filename" and to tell curl to read the format from stdin you
-write "@-".
-
-The variables present in the output format will be substituted by the value or
-text that curl thinks fit, as described below. All variables are specified
-like %{variable_name} and to output a normal % you just write them like
-%%. You can output a newline by using \\n, a carrige return with \\r and a tab
-space with \\t.
-
-.B NOTE:
-The %-letter is a special letter in the win32-environment, where all
-occurrences of % must be doubled when using this option.
-
-Available variables are at this point:
-.RS
-.TP 15
-.B url_effective
-The URL that was fetched last. This is mostly meaningful if you've told curl
-to follow location: headers.
-.TP
-.B http_code
-The numerical code that was found in the last retrieved HTTP(S) page.
-.TP
-.B time_total
-The total time, in seconds, that the full operation lasted. The time will be
-displayed with millisecond resolution.
-.TP
-.B time_namelookup
-The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the name resolving was
-completed.
-.TP
-.B time_connect
-The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the connect to the remote
-host (or proxy) was completed.
-.TP
-.B time_pretransfer
-The time, in seconds, it took from the start until the file transfer is just
-about to begin. This includes all pre-transfer commands and negotiations that
-are specific to the particular protocol(s) involved.
-.TP
-.B size_download
-The total amount of bytes that were downloaded.
-.TP
-.B size_upload
-The total amount of bytes that were uploaded.
-.TP
-.B speed_download
-The average download speed that curl measured for the complete download.
-.TP
-.B speed_upload
-The average upload speed that curl measured for the complete download.
-.RE
-.IP "-x/--proxy <proxyhost[:port]>"
-Use specified proxy. If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at
-port 1080.
-.IP "-X/--request <command>"
-(HTTP)
-Specifies a custom request to use when communicating with the HTTP server.
-The specified request will be used instead of the standard GET. Read the
-HTTP 1.1 specification for details and explanations.
-
-(FTP)
-Specifies a custom FTP command to use instead of LIST when doing file lists
-with ftp.
-.IP "-y/--speed-time <time>"
-If a download is slower than speed-limit bytes per second during a speed-time
-period, the download gets aborted. If speed-time is used, the default
-speed-limit will be 1 unless set with -y.
-.IP "-Y/--speed-limit <speed>"
-If a download is slower than this given speed, in bytes per second, for
-speed-time seconds it gets aborted. speed-time is set with -Y and is 30 if
-not set.
-.IP "-z/--time-cond <date expression>"
-(HTTP)
-Request to get a file that has been modified later than the given time and
-date, or one that has been modified before that time. The date expression can
-be all sorts of date strings or if it doesn't match any internal ones, it
-tries to get the time from a given file name instead! See the
-.BR "GNU date(1)"
-man page for date expression details.
-
-Start the date expression with a dash (-) to make it request for a document
-that is older than the given date/time, default is a document that is newer
-than the specified date/time.
-.IP "-3/--sslv3"
-(HTTPS)
-Forces curl to use SSL version 3 when negotiating with a remote SSL server.
-.IP "-2/--sslv2"
-(HTTPS)
-Forces curl to use SSL version 2 when negotiating with a remote SSL server.
-.IP "-#/--progress-bar"
-Make curl display progress information as a progress bar instead of the
-default statistics.
-.IP "--crlf"
-(FTP) Convert LF to CRLF in upload. Useful for MVS (OS/390).
-.IP "--stderr <file>"
-Redirect all writes to stderr to the specified file instead. If the file name
-is a plain '-', it is instead written to stdout. This option has no point when
-you're using a shell with decent redirecting capabilities.
-.SH FILES
-.I ~/.curlrc
-.RS
-Default config file.
-
-.SH ENVIRONMENT
-.IP "HTTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
-Sets proxy server to use for HTTP.
-.IP "HTTPS_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
-Sets proxy server to use for HTTPS.
-.IP "FTP_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
-Sets proxy server to use for FTP.
-.IP "GOPHER_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
-Sets proxy server to use for GOPHER.
-.IP "ALL_PROXY [protocol://]<host>[:port]"
-Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific proxy is set.
-.IP "NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>"
-list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy. If set to a
-asterisk '*' only, it matches all hosts.
-.IP "COLUMNS <integer>"
-The width of the terminal. This variable only affects curl when the
---progress-bar option is used.
-.SH EXIT CODES
-There exists a bunch of different error codes and their corresponding error
-messages that may appear during bad conditions. At the time of this writing,
-the exit codes are:
-.IP 1
-Unsupported protocol. This build of curl has no support for this protocol.
-.IP 2
-Failed to initialize.
-.IP 3
-URL malformat. The syntax was not correct.
-.IP 4
-URL user malformatted. The user-part of the URL syntax was not correct.
-.IP 5
-Couldn't resolve proxy. The given proxy host could not be resolved.
-.IP 6
-Couldn't resolve host. The given remote host was not resolved.
-.IP 7
-Failed to connect to host.
-.IP 8
-FTP weird server reply. The server sent data curl couldn't parse.
-.IP 9
-FTP access denied. The server denied login.
-.IP 10
-FTP user/password incorrect. Either one or both were not accepted by the
-server.
-.IP 11
-FTP weird PASS reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the PASS request.
-.IP 12
-FTP weird USER reply. Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the USER request.
-.IP 13
-FTP weird PASV reply, Curl couldn't parse the reply sent to the PASV request.
-.IP 14
-FTP weird 227 formay. Curl couldn't parse the 227-line the server sent.
-.IP 15
-FTP can't get host. Couldn't resolve the host IP we got in the 227-line.
-.IP 16
-FTP can't reconnect. Couldn't connect to the host we got in the 227-line.
-.IP 17
-FTP couldn't set binary. Couldn't change transfer method to binary.
-.IP 18
-Partial file. Only a part of the file was transfered.
-.IP 19
-FTP couldn't RETR file. The RETR command failed.
-.IP 20
-FTP write error. The transfer was reported bad by the server.
-.IP 21
-FTP quote error. A quote command returned error from the server.
-.IP 22
-HTTP not found. The requested page was not found. This return code only
-appears if --fail is used.
-.IP 23
-Write error. Curl couldn't write data to a local filesystem or similar.
-.IP 24
-Malformat user. User name badly specified.
-.IP 25
-FTP couldn't STOR file. The server denied the STOR operation.
-.IP 26
-Read error. Various reading problems.
-.IP 27
-Out of memory. A memory allocation request failed.
-.IP 28
-Operation timeout. The specified time-out period was reached according to the
-conditions.
-.IP 29
-FTP couldn't set ASCII. The server returned an unknown reply.
-.IP 30
-FTP PORT failed. The PORT command failed.
-.IP 31
-FTP couldn't use REST. The REST command failed.
-.IP 32
-FTP couldn't use SIZE. The SIZE command failed. The command is an extension
-to the original FTP spec RFC 959.
-.IP 33
-HTTP range error. The range "command" didn't work.
-.IP 34
-HTTP post error. Internal post-request generation error.
-.IP 35
-SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.
-.IP 36
-FTP bad download resume. Couldn't continue an earlier aborted download.
-.IP 37
-FILE couldn't read file. Failed to open the file. Permissions?
-.IP 38
-LDAP cannot bind. LDAP bind operation failed.
-.IP 39
-LDAP search failed.
-.IP 40
-Library not found. The LDAP library was not found.
-.IP 41
-Function not found. A required LDAP function was not found.
-.IP XX
-There will appear more error codes here in future releases. The existing ones
-are meant to never change.
-.SH BUGS
-If you do find any (or have other suggestions), mail Daniel Stenberg
-<Daniel.Stenberg@haxx.nu>.
-.SH AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
- - Daniel Stenberg <Daniel.Stenberg@haxx.nu>
- - Rafael Sagula <sagula@inf.ufrgs.br>
- - Sampo Kellomaki <sampo@iki.fi>
- - Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
- - Bjorn Reese <breese@mail1.stofanet.dk>
- - Johan Anderson <johan@homemail.com>
- - Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson@haxx,nu>
- - Troy Engel <tengel@sonic.net>
- - Ryan Nelson <ryan@inch.com>
- - Bjorn Stenberg <Bjorn.Stenberg@haxx.nu>
- - Angus Mackay <amackay@gus.ml.org>
- - Eric Young <eay@cryptsoft.com>
- - Simon Dick <simond@totally.irrelevant.org>
- - Oren Tirosh <oren@monty.hishome.net>
- - Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu>
- - Gilbert Ramirez Jr. <gram@verdict.uthscsa.edu>
- - Andrés García <ornalux@redestb.es>
- - Douglas E. Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com>
- - Mark Butler <butlerm@xmission.com>
- - Eric Thelin <eric@generation-i.com>
- - Marc Boucher <marc@mbsi.ca>
- - Greg Onufer <Greg.Onufer@Eng.Sun.COM>
- - Doug Kaufman <dkaufman@rahul.net>
- - David Eriksson <david@2good.com>
- - Ralph Beckmann <rabe@uni-paderborn.de>
- - T. Yamada <tai@imasy.or.jp>
- - Lars J. Aas <larsa@sim.no>
- - Jörn Hartroth <Joern.Hartroth@telekom.de>
- - Matthew Clarke <clamat@van.maves.ca>
- - Linus Nielsen <Linus.Nielsen@haxx.nu>
- - Felix von Leitner <felix@convergence.de>
- - Dan Zitter <dzitter@zitter.net>
- - Jongki Suwandi <Jongki.Suwandi@eng.sun.com>
- - Chris Maltby <chris@aurema.com>
- - Ron Zapp <rzapper@yahoo.com>
- - Paul Marquis <pmarquis@iname.com>
- - Ellis Pritchard <ellis@citria.com>
- - Damien Adant <dams@usa.net>
- - Chris <cbayliss@csc.come>
- - Marco G. Salvagno <mgs@whiz.cjb.net>
-.SH WWW
-http://curl.haxx.nu
-.SH FTP
-ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/www/utilities/curl/
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR ftp (1),
-.BR wget (1),
-.BR snarf (1)