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supervised in any way by the project.
We still get help from companies. Haxx provides web site, bandwidth, mailing
- lists etc and sourceforge.net hosts project services we take advantage from,
- like the bug tracker. Also again, some companies have sponsored certain
- parts of the development in the past and I hope some will continue to do so
- in the future.
+ lists etc, sourceforge.net hosts project services we take advantage from,
+ like the bug tracker and github hosts the primary git repository. Also
+ again, some companies have sponsored certain parts of the development in the
+ past and I hope some will continue to do so in the future.
If you want to support our project, consider a donation or a banner-program
or even better: by helping us coding, documenting, testing etc.
@@ -309,17 +309,16 @@ FAQ
never use it.
In May 2012 Daniel did a counting game and came up with a number that may
- be completely wrong or somewhat accurate. 300 million!
+ be completely wrong or somewhat accurate. Over 500 million!
See http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/
1.11 Why don't you update ca-bundle.crt
- The ca-bundle.crt file that used to be bundled with curl was very outdated
- (it being last modified year 2000 should tell) and must be replaced with a
- much more modern and up-to-date version by anyone who wants to verify peers
- anyway. It is no longer provided, the last curl release that shipped it was
- curl 7.18.0.
+ The ca cert bundle that used to shipped with curl was very outdated and must
+ be replaced with an up-to-date version by anyone who wants to verify
+ peers. It is no longer provided by curl. The last curl release ever that
+ shipped a ca cert bundle was curl 7.18.0.
In the cURL project we've decided not to attempt to keep this file updated
(or even present anymore) since deciding what to add to a ca cert bundle is
@@ -433,10 +432,10 @@ FAQ
That is an OpenSSL binary built for Windows.
- Curl uses OpenSSL to do the SSL stuff. The LIBEAY32.DLL is what curl needs
- on a windows machine to do https://. Check out the curl web site to find
- accurate and up-to-date pointers to recent OpenSSL DLLs and other binary
- packages.
+ Curl can be built with OpenSSL to do the SSL stuff. The LIBEAY32.DLL is then
+ what curl needs on a windows machine to do https:// etc. Check out the curl
+ web site to find accurate and up-to-date pointers to recent OpenSSL DLLs and
+ other binary packages.
2.4 Does curl support SOCKS (RFC 1928) ?
@@ -472,9 +471,9 @@ FAQ
3.3 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', then and only then you must
- use the -F type. In all the most common cases, you should use -d which then
+ receive your post expects one of the formats. If the form you're trying to
+ submit uses the type 'multipart/form-data', then 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'.
This is described in some detail in the MANUAL and TheArtOfHttpScripting
@@ -502,9 +501,9 @@ FAQ
3.6 Does curl support ASP, XML, XHTML or HTML version Y?
To curl, all contents are alike. It doesn't matter how the page was
- generated. It may be ASP, PHP, Perl, shell-script, SSI or plain
- HTML-files. There's no difference to curl and it doesn't even know what kind
- of language that generated the page.
+ generated. It may be ASP, PHP, Perl, shell-script, SSI or plain HTML
+ files. There's no difference to curl and it doesn't even know what kind of
+ language that generated the page.
See also item 3.14 regarding javascript.