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+ _ _ ____ _
+ 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 - ?
+