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