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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-02-10 23:23:42 +0000
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2007-02-10 23:23:42 +0000
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parent61f19c6ca3b8fa75eeef5b32f9d7be64e1965f19 (diff)
minor updates to reflect reality better
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-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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@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ FAQ
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,
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ FAQ
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].
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ FAQ
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.
@@ -355,10 +356,10 @@ FAQ
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?
@@ -896,8 +897,6 @@ FAQ
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
@@ -916,8 +915,6 @@ FAQ
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