November 1998, configure script and reported successful compiles on several
major operating systems. The never-quite-understood -F option was added and
-curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser.
+curl could now simulate quite a lot of a browser. TELNET support was added.
Curl 5 was released in December 1998 and introduced the first ever curl man
page. People started making Linux RPM packages out of it.
also introduced libcurl's ability to do persistent connections. 24000 lines of
code.
+The first experimental ftps:// support was added in March 2001.
+
August 2001. curl is bundled in Mac OS X, 10.1. It was already becoming more
and more of a standard utility of Linux distributions and a regular in the BSD
ports collections. The curl web site gets 8000 visits weekly. Curl Corporation
February 2003, the curl site averages at 20000 visits weekly. At any given
moment, there's an average of 3 people browsing the curl.haxx.se site.
+
+Multiple new authentication schemes are supported: Digest (May), NTLM (June)
+and Negotiate (June).
+
+November 2003: curl 7.10.8 is released. 45000 lines of code. ~55000 unique
+visitors to the curl.haxx.se site. Five official web mirrors.
+
+December 2003, full-fledged SSL for FTP is supported.