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The online version of the curl book “everything curl” has been moved to the address shown in the title: everything.curl.dev This, after I did a very unscientific and highly self-selective poll on twitter on January 18 2020 The old name (which you can ... [More] see what the least selected in the poll) will now redirect to … Continue reading everything.curl.dev → [Less]

I founded the curl project early 1998 but had already then been working on the code since November 1996. The source code was always open, free and available to the world. The term “open source” actually wasn’t even coined until early 1998, just weeks ... [More] before curl was born. In the beginning of course, the first … Continue reading Food on the table while giving away code → [Less]

Kjell, a friend of mine, mailed me a zip file this morning saying he’d found an earlier version of “urlget” lying around. Meaning: an older version than what we provide on the curl download page. urlget was the name we used for the command line tool before we changed the name to curl in March … Continue reading Age is just a number or two →

As we’re approaching the end of the year, I just want to sum up the curl year with a few words. 2020 has been another glorious year in the curl project. We’ve seen a series of accomplishments and introductions of new things during this the year of the plague. Accomplishments I personally have done more … Continue reading The curl year 2020 →

Not everyone understands how open source is made. I received the following email from NASA a while ago. Subject: Curl Country of Origin and NDAA Compliance Hello, my name is [deleted] and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Analyst at NASA. As such ... [More] , I ensure that all NASA acquisitions of Covered Articles comply with … Continue reading curl supports NASA → [Less]

Google has, as part of their involvement in the Open Source Security Foundation (OpnSSF), come up with a “Criticality Score” for open source projects. It is a score between 0 (least critical) and 1 (most critical) The input variables are: time since ... [More] project creation time since last update number of committers number or organizations among … Continue reading the critical curl → [Less]

Welcome to another curl release, 56 days since the previous one. Release presentation Numbers the 196th release1 change56 days (total: 8,301)107 bug fixes (total: 6,569)167 commits (total: 26,484)0 new public libcurl function (total: 85)6 new ... [More] curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 284)1 new curl command line option (total: 235)46 contributors, 22 new (total: 2,292)22 authors, 8 new (total: … Continue reading curl 7.74.0 with HSTS → [Less]

I write and prefer code that fits within 80 columns in curl and other projects – and there are reasons for it. I’m a little bored by the people who respond and say that they have 400 inch monitors already and they can use them. I too have multiple large high resolution screens – but … Continue reading I am an 80 column purist →

The purpose of the curl web site is to inform the world about what curl and libcurl are and provide as much information as possible about the project, the products and everything related to that. The web site has existed in some form for as long as the project has, but it has of course … Continue reading The curl web infrastructure →

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