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8 This document has been introduced in order to let you find documents that
9 specify standards used by curl, software that extends curl and web pages with
10 "competing" utilities.
14 RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
15 RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
16 RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
17 RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
18 RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
20 RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
21 RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
22 RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
24 RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
25 RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
27 RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
28 RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
29 - Also, read Netscape's specification at
30 http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
31 RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
32 RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
33 RFC 2231 - "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
34 Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations"
35 RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
36 Use this as an addition to the 1867
37 RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics"
38 This one obsoletes 1738, but since 1738 is often mentioned I've left it
40 RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
41 This should be considered when introducing IPv6 awareness.
43 RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
47 MingW32 - http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/index.html
51 OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org
52 OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org
53 zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
57 wget - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
58 snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
59 lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
60 swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/