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Re: cURL Abbreviation

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:24:43 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

> Just curious to know what does c means in cURL

Quoting http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#What_is_cURL :

   cURL is the name of the project. The name is a play on 'Client for URLs',
   originally with URL spelled in uppercase to make it obvious it deals with
   URLs. The fact it can also be pronounced 'see URL' also helped, it works as
   an abbreviation for "Client URL Request Library" or why not the recursive
   version: "Curl URL Request Library".

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2008-05-29