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
Random proxy authentication error in win...	Wednesday 22:13	narayanan manikandan	3	libcurl
[curl:bugs] #1228 curl multi timeout doe...	Wednesday 21:45	Hang	1	Bugs
proposed patch to ssluse.c to fix socket...	Wednesday 21:17	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	libcurl
about doubt about using curl	Wednesday 20:44	Daniel Stenberg	2 first	libcurl
first	libcurl
libcurl Reporting Different Version Betw...	Wednesday 19:08	Jeff Pohlmeyer	8 first	libcurl
[curl:bugs] #1224 CONNECTTIMEOUT_MS func...	Wednesday 15:22	Andrii Moiseiev	5 first	Bugs
Curl with silent option is outputting da...	Wednesday 15:20	Kamil Dudka	4 first	curl-users
Reg:curl NSS -12886 Error in TLS handsha...	Wednesday 10:04	Kamil Dudka	2 first	curl-users
[curl:bugs] #1227 warning:WARNING: gnome...	Wednesday 09:20	ponmudi	1	Bugs

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