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diff --git a/RESOURCES b/RESOURCES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..92b25ce45 --- /dev/null +++ b/RESOURCES @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ + _ _ ____ _ + 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 - ? + |