3.7 Can I use curl to delete/rename a file through FTP?
3.8 How do I tell curl to follow HTTP redirects?
3.9 How do I use curl in PHP?
- 3.10 What about SOAP, WEBDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?
+ 3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?
4. Running Problems
4.1 Problems connecting to SSL servers.
invoke the curl tool using a command line. This is the way to use curl if
you're using PHP3 or PHP4 built without curl module support.
- 3.10 What about SOAP, WEBDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?
+ 3.10 What about SOAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC or similar protocols over HTTP?
Curl adheres to the HTTP spec, which basically means you can play with *any*
protocol that is built ontop of HTTP. Protocols such as SOAP, WEBDAV and
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- How To Use Libcurl In Your Program
+ How To Use Libcurl In Your C/C++ Program
+
+ [ libcurl can be used directly from within your PHP or Perl programs as well,
+ look elsewhere for documentation on this ]
The interface is meant to be very simple for applictions/programmers, hence
the name "easy". We have therefore minimized the number of entries.
For details on these, read the separate man pages.
+Portability
+
+ libcurl works *exactly* the same, on any of the platforms it compiles and
+ builds on.
+
+ There's only one caution, and that is the win32 platform that may(*) require
+ you to init the winsock stuff before you use the libcurl functions. Details
+ on this are noted on the curl_easy_init() man page.
+
+ (*) = it appears users of the cygwin environment gets this done
+ automatically.
+
Persistant Connections
With libcurl 7.7, persistant connections were added. Persistant connections