| _ _ ____ _ |
| Project ___| | | | _ \| | |
| / __| | | | |_) | | |
| | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ |
| \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| |
| |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| Standards |
| --------- |
| |
| RFC 959 - Defines how FTP works |
| |
| RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators |
| |
| RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol |
| |
| RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators |
| |
| RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML |
| |
| RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification |
| |
| RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification |
| |
| RFC 1952 - gzip compression format |
| |
| 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 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" |
| |
| RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document. |
| |
| 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 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 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs" |
| |
| RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest |
| |
| RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication |
| |
| RFC 2718 - "Guidelines for new URL Schemes" |
| |
| RFC 2732 - "Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's" |
| |
| Compilers |
| --------- |
| MingW32 - http://www.mingw.org |
| |
| gcc - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html |
| |
| Software |
| -------- |
| OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org |
| |
| OpenLDAP - http://www.openldap.org |
| |
| zlib - http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/ |
| |
| Similar Tools |
| ------------- |
| wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html |
| |
| snarf - http://www.xach.com/snarf/ |
| |
| lynx - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used) |
| |
| swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/ |
| |
| Related Software |
| ---------------- |
| ftpparse - http://cr.yp.to/ftpparse.html parses FTP LIST responses |
| |
| autoconf - http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html |
| |
| automake - http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/automake.html |
| |
| bison - http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html |
| |
| gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html |
| |
| tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html |
| |
| libtool - http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html |
