- Curl (mathematics), a vector operator that shows a vector field's rate of rotation
- Biceps curl or wrist curl, weight training exercises
In technology
- Curl (programming language), an object-oriented programming language designed for interactive Web content
- cURL, a command line tool for transferring files
- Cambridge University Robot Language, an interactive robot control environment
- The NATO reporting name for the Antonov An-26 aircraft
Other
- Center for Urban Research and Learning, an organization aimed to promote equality and to improve people's lives in communities throughout the Chicago metropolitan region
- Curl (football), is spin on a football, which will make it swerve when kicked
- An informal term for a comet with an East-West trajectory
- Research Libraries UK, an association of academic and research libraries in the United Kingdom, until 2008 known as CURL (originally the Consortium of University Research Libraries, later the Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles)
See also
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cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. The strong point of cURL is the number of data transfer protocols it supports (listed further down). Distributed under the MIT License, cURL is free software.
The main purpose and use for cURL is to automate unattended file transfers or sequences of operations. For example, it is a good tool for simulating a user's actions at a web browser.
Libcurl is the corresponding library/API that users may incorporate into their programs; cURL acts as a stand-alone wrapper to the libcurl library. libcurl is used to provide URL transfer capabilities to numerous applications (open-source as well as proprietary).
Bindings for more than 30 languages are available for libcurl.
Supported protocols
Additional format support includes (and many other features):
- HTTPS certificates
- [Methods|HTTP POST]
- [Methods|HTTP PUT]
- FTP uploading
- Kerberos
- HTTP form based upload
- proxies
- [cookie|cookies]
- user+password authentication (Basic Digest NTLM and Negotiate for HTTP and kerberos4 for FTP)
- file transfer resume
- HTTP proxy tunneling
See also
External links
- cURL website
- cURL manpage
- PHP using cURL method
- Tutorials, Using PHP & cURL to Webscrape
- Scripting HTTP requests using cURL
- How To Submit Forms With cURL and PHP
- curl vs wget comparison
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