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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, web pages with
10 "competing" utilities and information pages that describe some of the tools
11 that we use to build/compile/develop curl.
16 RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
18 RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
20 RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
22 RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
24 RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
26 RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
28 RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
30 RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
32 RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
34 RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
37 RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
39 RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
40 - Also, read Netscape's specification at
41 http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
43 RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
45 RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
47 RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
49 RFC 2231 - "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
50 Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations"
52 RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
53 Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
55 RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
56 one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
57 I've left it in this list.
59 RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
61 RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
63 RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
65 RFC 2718 - "Guidelines for new URL Schemes"
67 RFC 2732 - "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's"
71 MingW32 - http://www.mingw.org/
73 gcc - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
77 OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org/
79 OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org/
81 zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
85 wget - http://sunsite.dk/wget/
87 snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
89 lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
91 swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
95 ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses
97 autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
99 automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html
101 bison - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
103 gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
105 tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
107 libtool - http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html