cURL

Almost 14 months since I celebrated 15,000 commits in curl’s source code repository I have now passed 16,000 commits. My commit number 16,000 was a minor man page fix. The official gitstats page shows that I’ve committed changes on almost 4,600 ... [More] separate days since the year 2000. 16,000 commits is 13,413 commits more than the … Continue reading 16000 curl commmits → [Less]

I like figuring out even or somehow particularly aligned numbers and dates to celebrate. Here’s another one: today marks the day when httpget 0.1 was released in 1996. httpget 0.1 was a tiny command line tool written by Rafael Sagula. It was less ... [More] than 300 lines of C code. (Today, the product code is 173,000 … Continue reading My first 25 years of HTTP → [Less]

For a long time I have been wanting to avoid us to ever reach curl version 7.100.0. I strongly suspect that going three-digits in the minor number will cause misunderstandings and possibly even glitches in people’s comparison scripts etc. If nothing ... [More] else, it is just a very high number to use in a version string … Continue reading The curl v8 plan → [Less]

Welcome to another curl release, 7 weeks since the previous one. Release presentation Numbers the 204th release6 changes49 days (total: 8,636)117 bug-fixes (total: 7,397)198 commits (total: 27,866)1 new public libcurl function (total: 86)4 new ... [More] curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 294)1 new curl command line option (total: 243)78 contributors, 44 new (total: 2,533)50 authors, 28 new (total: 976)0 … Continue reading curl 7.80.0 post quantum → [Less]

The curl project’s source code has been hosted on GitHub since March 2010. I wrote a blog post in 2013 about what I missed from the service back then and while it has improved significantly since then, there are still features I miss and flaws I think can be fixed. For this reason, I’ve created … Continue reading a github wishlist →

I’ve previously said that curl is one of the most widely used software components in the world with its estimated over ten billion installations, and I’m getting questions about it every now and then. — Is curl the most widely used software component ... [More] in the world? If not, which one is? We can’t know for … Continue reading The most used software components in the world → [Less]

There’s this new TV-show on Swedish Television (SVT) called Hackad (“hacked” in English), which is about a team of white hat hackers showing the audience exactly how vulnerable lots of things, people and companies are and how they can be hacked using ... [More] various means. In the show the hackers show how they hack into peoples … Continue reading Hackad: curl use on TV → [Less]

I’ve joked with friends and said that we should have a competition to see whom among us have the largest number of curl installations in their homes. This is of course somewhat based on that I claim that there are more than ten billion curl ... [More] installations in the world. That’s more installations than humans. How … Continue reading curl installations per capita → [Less]

Have you been curious about getting your feet wet with doing Internet transfers with libcurl but reasons (excuses?) have kept you away? Maybe it has felt as a too big step to take? Fear not, on October 21 I’m doing a free webinar on Getting started ... [More] with libcurl detailing useful first steps on how to … Continue reading Coming webinar: getting started with libcurl → [Less]

In the curl project we keep track of and say thanks to every single contributor. That includes persons who report bugs or security problems, who run infrastructure for us, who assist in debugging or fixing problems as well as those who author code or ... [More] edit the website. Those who have contributed to make curl to … Continue reading One new contributor every 3.4 days → [Less]