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-This document has been introduced in order to let you find documents that
-specify standards used by curl, software that extends curl, web pages with
-"competing" utilities and information pages that describe some of the tools
-that we use to build/compile/develop curl.
+This document lists documents and standards used by curl.
-Standards
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+ RFC 959 - FTP Protocol
- RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works
+ RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP
RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
- RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
+ RFC 1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
- RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
+ RFC 1952 - GZIP File Format Specification
- RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
+ RFC 1959 - LDAP URL Syntax
RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
based upload)
RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
+ RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
+
RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
- Also, read Netscape's specification at
- http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
-
- RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
-
- RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
+ https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
- RFC 2231 - "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
- Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations"
-
- RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
- Use this as an addition to the 1867
+ RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field
- RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
- one obsoletes 1738, but since 1738 is often mentioned I've left
- it in this list.
+ RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 Authentication
- RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
- This should be considered when introducing IPv6 awareness.
+ RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol
- RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1
+ RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL Format
- RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
+ RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
+ Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
-Compilers
----------
- MingW32 - http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/index.html
+ RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
+ Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
- gcc - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
+ RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
+ one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
+ I've left it in this list.
-Software
---------
- OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org
+ RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
- OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org
+ RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations
- zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
+ RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
-Similar Tools
--------------
- wget - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
+ RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
- snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
+ RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes
- lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
+ RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
- swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
+ RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)
- fetch - ?
+ RFC 2821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
-Related Software
-----------------
- ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses
+ RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management
- autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
+ RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109
- automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html
+ RFC 3207 - SMTP Over TLS
- bison - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
+ RFC 4616 - PLAIN Authentication
- gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
+ RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication
- tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
+ RFC 7932 - Brotli Compressed Data Format