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+This is just a small collection of perl scripts that use curl to do
+their jobs.
+
+If you need a proxy configuration in order to get HTTP or FTP
+documents, do edit your .curlrc file in your HOME dir to contain:
+-x <proxy host>:<proxy port>
+
+These scripts are all written by Daniel Stenberg.
+
+checklinks.pl
+=============
+  This script fetches an HTML page, extracts all links and references to
+  other documents and then goes through them to check that they work.
+  Reports progress in a format intended for machine-parsing.
+
+getlinks.pl
+===========
+  You ever wanted to download a bunch of programs a certain HTML page has
+  links to? This program extracts all links and references from a web page
+  and then compares them to the regex you supply. All matches will be
+  downloaded in the target directory of your choice.
+
+recursiveftpget.pl
+==================
+  This script recursively downloads all files from a directory on an ftp site
+  and all subdirectories it has. Optional depth-level.
+
+formfind.pl
+===========
+  Downloads an HTML page (or reads stdin) and reports a human readable report
+  about the FORM(s) present. What method, what URL, which input or select
+  field, what default values they have and what submit buttons there are. It
+  is useful if you intend to use curl to properly fake a form submission.