libcurl has done internet transfers specified as URLs for a long time, but the URLs you'd tell libcurl to use would always just get parsed and used internally.
It can take the #HardenedBSD project a full month to rebuild its package repos. And since we've built this software monoculture against libcurl, this will be FUN!
It was recently updated in this doc to seven, but there were *two* numbers mentioned and only one of them was updated leaving the paragraph quite confusing. Follow-up to 83c90e50472f32b74e388f6e524d...
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
Okay you might ask, what's the news here? We've been able to get HTTP response headers with curl since virtually the stone age. Yes we have. Get the page and also show the headers: curl -i https://example.
🛡️#Curl has been around for 26 years—and it’s still secure! How?
European Open Source Academy member, @bagder Stenberg, joined the latest episode of Security Weekly Productions, discussing how Curl and #libcurl have maintained security and reliability over decades.
A significant milestone for the European open source community was reached on January 30, 2025, when the European Open Source Awards (OSAwards 2025) celebrated the launch of the European Open Source Academy with the Inaugural Ceremony.
With this change, the argument passed to the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option is treated as a mode option instead of a boolean.
CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE
If the mode CURLFOLLOW_OBEYCODE bit is set, it means...
Via another "crazy security scanner" report, I learn that #libcurl is installed in a #Microsoft Office and/or Teams install on Windows? According to the reddit post, in a normal install.
An introduction to doing internet transfers using libcurl's easy API. It's easy and requires very few lines of code to get the first basic transfers going.Da...
Start 2025 with mastering libcurl! Take your URL transfer skills to the next level! Join curl founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg on January 9th at 10 AM PT for an exclusive webinar, New and Updated: Getting Started with curl.
Next week on Thursday Jan 9 comes a new chance to get to learn how to get started with #libcurl development in a live and free webinar with me. Sign up here:
Start 2025 with mastering libcurl! Take your URL transfer skills to the next level! Join curl founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg on January 9th at 10 AM PT for an exclusive webinar, New and Updated: Getting Started with curl.
The sandboxed-api project provides libraries the means to implement a separate api that allows to execute library functions in a separate process which can be effectively restricted using seccomp a...
@bagder #curl (#libcurl, specifically) is used in Seat Leon (probably a VW-group thing); together with *a lot* of other #opensource (see the scrollbar).
Everyone and anyone is of course entitled to fork a project that is released under an open source license. This goes for my projects as well and I don't mind it. Go ahead.
Micah Cowan is the current maintainer of GNU Wget, and he recently posted a long mail to the wget mailing list titled "Thoughts on Wget 1.x, 2.0". Two fun quotes for the curious who don't feel like reading the whole post: 1.
We're thrilled to announce that Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, will be hosting an exciting webinar. Join us for "Advanced curl" on June 13th at 10 AM PT.
curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown inspired with differences:
Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
Supports a small subset of markdown
cd2nrof...
Looking back over the years, it is kind of amazing how many refactors and overhauls we have done of the libcurl internals while still providing the exact same and functional API...
Today I learned about #trurl, a command-line tool for URL parsing and manipulation from the developer of #curl and #libcurl. Modify or extract URL hostnames, schemes, port numbers, and path and query segments, trim tracking data, encode spaces and other characters, and get everything as either JSON or readable text output. github.com/curl/trurl
