From 7c37c6a8e9b7185fe7c7a607fe12931a226faa06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:35:35 +0000 Subject: moved here from the root directory --- docs/RESOURCES | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/RESOURCES (limited to 'docs/RESOURCES') diff --git a/docs/RESOURCES b/docs/RESOURCES new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b60460160 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/RESOURCES @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ + _ _ ____ _ + 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 - ? + -- cgit v1.2.3