cURL

curl is a command line tool and library for doing Internet data transfers. It has been around for a loooong time (over 23 years) but there is still a flood of new things being added to it and development being made, to take it further and to keep it relevant today and in the future. … Continue reading What goes into curl? →

In the afternoon of October 17, 2013 we merged the first config file ever that would use Travis CI for the curl project using the nifty integration at GitHub. This was the actual introduction of the entire concept of building and testing the project ... [More] on every commit and pull request for the curl project. Before … Continue reading Bye bye Travis CI → [Less]

In 2012 I wrote a blog post titled curling the metalink, describing how we added support for metalink to curl. Today, we remove that support again. This is a very drastic move, and I feel obliged to explain it so here it goes! curl 7.78.0 will ship ... [More] without metalink support. Metalink problems There were several … Continue reading Bye bye metalink in curl → [Less]

When you use the name localhost in a URL, what does it mean? Where does the network traffic go when you ask curl to download http://localhost ? Is “localhost” just a name like any other or do you think it infers speaking to your local host on a ... [More] loopback address? Previously curl http://localhost The name … Continue reading curl localhost as a local host → [Less]

Thanks to funding by ISRG (via Google), we merged the hyper powered HTTP back-end into curl earlier this year as an alternative HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 implementation. Previously, there was only one way to do HTTP/1 and 2 in curl. Backends Core libcurl ... [More] functionality can be powered by optional and alternative backends in a way that … Continue reading Taking hyper-curl further → [Less]

Part 1. The beginning. (There will be at least one more part later on following up the progress.) On May 18, 2021 I posted a tweet that I was giving away curl stickers for free to anyone who’d submit their address to me. It looked like this: Everyone once in a while when I post … Continue reading Giving away an insane amount of curl stickers →

Welcome to the 200th curl release. We call it 200 OK. It coincides with us counting more than 900 commit authors and surpassing 2,400 credited contributors in the project. This is also the first release ever in which we thank more than 80 persons in ... [More] the RELEASE-NOTES for having helped out making it and we’ve … Continue reading curl 7.77.0 – 200 OK → [Less]

For the eighth consecutive year we run the annual curl user survey again in 2021. The form just went up and I would love to have you spend 10 minutes of your busy life to tell us how you think curl works, what doesn’t work and what we should do next. We have no tracking … Continue reading The curl user survey 2021 →

Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful. These are statements made seriously. For ... [More] all I know, they were not ironic. If you find others to add … Continue reading “I could rewrite curl” → [Less]

One day in March 1998 I released a little file transfer tool I called curl. The first ever curl release. That was good. 10 By the end of July the same year, I released the 10th curl release. I’ve always believed in release early release often as a service to users and developers alike. 20 … Continue reading 200 OK →