Cactus Code Thorn curl
Author(s)    : Erik Schnetter
Maintainer(s): Cactus team
Licence      : LGPL
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1. Purpose

Interface to the curl library; see <http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/>.



From the web site:

libcurl - the multiprotocol file transfer library

libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library,
supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT,
LDAP, LDAPS and FILE.  libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST,
HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,
user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate,
Kerberos4), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

libcurl is highly portable, it builds and works identically on
numerous platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
Darwin, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, UnixWare, HURD, Windows, Amiga,
OS/2, BeOs, Mac OS X, Ultrix, QNX, OpenVMS, RISC OS, Novell NetWare,
DOS and more...

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well
supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many
known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.