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@@ -245,10 +245,10 @@ FAQ 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1.11 Why don't you update ca-bundle.crt - The ca-bundle.crt file that used to be bundled with curl was very outdated - (it being last modified year 2000 should tell) and must be replaced with a - much more modern and up-to-date version by anyone who wants to verify peers -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 + The ca cert bundle that used to shipped with curl was very outdated and must + be replaced with an up-to-date version by anyone who wants to verify + peers.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. |