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- This document has been introduced in order to let you find documents that
- specify standards used by curl, software that extends curl, web pages with
- "competing" utilities and information pages that describe some of the tools
- that we use to build/compile/develop curl.
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- Standards
- ---------
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- RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
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- RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
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- RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
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- RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
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- RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
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- RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
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- RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
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- RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
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- RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
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- RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
- based upload)
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- RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
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- RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
- - Also, read Netscape's specification at
- http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
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- RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
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- RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
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- RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
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- RFC 2231 - "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
- Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations"
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- 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.
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- RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
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- RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
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- RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
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- RFC 2718 - "Guidelines for new URL Schemes"
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- RFC 2732 - "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's"
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- Compilers
- ---------
- MingW32 - http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/index.html
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- gcc - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
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- Software
- --------
- OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org
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- OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org
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- zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
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- Similar Tools
- -------------
- wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
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- snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
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- lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
-
- swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
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- Related Software
- ----------------
- ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses
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- autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
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- automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html
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- bison - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
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- gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
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- tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
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- libtool - http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html
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