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diff --git a/docs/LIBCURL b/docs/LIBCURL index 3e1610283..d2b85bc78 100644 --- a/docs/LIBCURL +++ b/docs/LIBCURL @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ | | | |_) | (__| |_| | | | | |_|_|_.__/ \___|\__,_|_| |_| - How To Use Libcurl In Your Program + How To Use Libcurl In Your C/C++ Program + + [ libcurl can be used directly from within your PHP or Perl programs as well, + look elsewhere for documentation on this ] The interface is meant to be very simple for applictions/programmers, hence the name "easy". We have therefore minimized the number of entries. @@ -46,6 +49,18 @@ The Easy Interface For details on these, read the separate man pages. +Portability + + libcurl works *exactly* the same, on any of the platforms it compiles and + builds on. + + There's only one caution, and that is the win32 platform that may(*) require + you to init the winsock stuff before you use the libcurl functions. Details + on this are noted on the curl_easy_init() man page. + + (*) = it appears users of the cygwin environment gets this done + automatically. + Persistant Connections With libcurl 7.7, persistant connections were added. Persistant connections |