cURL
cURL

curl groks URLs

What is curl?

curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.

What's curl used for?

curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications totally affecting more than one billion users.

Who makes curl?

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

What's the latest curl?

The most recent stable version is 7.41.0, released on 25th of February 2015. Currently, 78 of the listed archives are of the latest version.

Check out the latest source code straight from github.

becoming more github friendly March 2 2015

We're trying to lower barriers and friction for newcomers. We have a new positive attitude to pull requests and issues filed directly at github. Welcome!

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curl and libcurl 7.41.0 February 25 2015

The curl team proudly presents another curl and libcurl relese: version 7.41.0. Read up on all the changes and bug fixes in the changelog.

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Connection and Response Timeout for Curl... Wednesday 04:20Praveen Pvs3 firstlibcurl
Failed writing body (-1 != 16384) Wednesday 03:43À¼Ìì3 firstlibcurl
SSPI proxy authentication fails for larg... Tuesday 22:20Abram Pousada3 firstlibcurl
[curl:bugs] #1493 possible bug when usin... Tuesday 16:36Frank meier1Bugs
[PATCH] gtls: correctly align certificat... Tuesday 14:49Daniel Stenberg2 firstlibcurl
[curl:bugs] #1492 failure to re-use prox... Tuesday 14:39Daniel Stenberg1Bugs
[PATCH] gtls: don't print double newline... Tuesday 14:20Daniel Stenberg2 firstlibcurl
[PATCH] gtls: print full cipher suite na... Tuesday 14:19Daniel Stenberg3 firstlibcurl
[PATCH] gtls: add support for CURLOPT_CA... Tuesday 14:17Daniel Stenberg3 firstlibcurl
[PATCH] Use @rpath instead of @executabl... Tuesday 14:04Daniel Stenberg2 firstlibcurl