Project Summary
command line tool and library
for transferring data with URLs
Supports...
DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.
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In a Nutshell, cURL...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 106 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 1989
ending with its most recent commit about 21 hours ago
MIT License
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Commercial Use
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Private Use
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Project Security
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30 Day SummaryDec 16 2025 — Jan 15 2026
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12 Month SummaryJan 15 2025 — Jan 15 2026
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for curl )
Repository URL: https://github.com/curl/curl
Version: curl-8_18_0-95-g6437bd79ae
- 2026-01-14
- Last Analyzed
- 208,425
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.0
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 329
- Total defects
- 0
- Outstanding
- 226
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
No top 25 CWE defects were found.