curl groks URLs

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Possibly more than 500 million users already, I'm sure you can use it as well!

curl is free and open software that compiles and runs under a wide variety of operating systems. curl exists thanks to efforts from many contributors.

The most recent stable version of curl is version 7.30.0, released on 12th of April 2013. Currently, 92 of the listed archives are of the latest version.

Use the curl command line tool or use libcurl from within your own programs.

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Latest News
curl and libcurl 7.30.0	April 12 2013
The curl team proudly presents curl and libcurl 7.30.0. Read up on all the changes and bug fixes on the changes page. Extra attention should be put on the libcurl cookie domain tailmatch security advisory we've announced today.
Using libcurl in MSVC document updated	March 30 2013
Andrei Jakab has provided an update to his popular Using libcurl with SSH support in Visual Studio 2010 PDF.

more news

Recent discussions on the mailing lists
Subject	GMT	Author	Thread	List
Modify cURL to store cookies in variable...	Sunday 14:45	Rodrigo	1	libcurl
Content-Length missing when setting cook...	Sunday 12:34	Szymon Gatner	3 first	libcurl
Interest in an Expat XML example?	Sunday 09:29	Daniel Stenberg	7 first	libcurl
How can I append a slash to the URL of a...	Sunday 08:31	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	curl-users
Question about cacert.pem on Windows wit...	Saturday 21:40	Thomas Mayer	6 first	libcurl
Feature window closes on May 22nd!	Saturday 21:22	Daniel Stenberg	1	libcurl
[PATCH] cookie path match fail	Saturday 20:57	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	libcurl
Modify cURL to store cookies in variable	Saturday 18:14	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	libcurl
axtls memory leak	Saturday 01:14	David Strauss	5 first	libcurl
[curl:bugs] #1226 curl_easy_cleanup cras...	Friday 18:32	Dan Fandrich	4 first	Bugs

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