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-
-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 - ?
-