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Why Curl is used ?

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I want to know the use of curl , what are the situations i can use curl in ? Once i understand the use of it , i would learn it fast
May 24 '08 #1
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rpnew
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I want to know the use of curl , what are the situations i can use curl in ? Once i understand the use of it , i would learn it fast
Hi,
[font=Arial] cURL is a multi-protocol tool for viewing and downloading remote files. You'll get some more information through following links....[/font]

cURL from CLI
CURL with PHP

Regards,
RP
May 24 '08 #2
ronverdonk
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cURL is the name of the project. The name is a play on 'Client for URLs', originally with URL spelled in uppercase to make it obvious it deals with URLs. The cURL project produces two products:
  • libcurl
    A free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. libcurl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, erberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!
  • curl
    A command line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax.
    Since curl uses libcurl, it supports a range of common Internet protocols, currently including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, LDAP, DICT,
    TELNET and FILE.
For tons of documentation on implementation and usage, you best refer to the site of the cURL developers, e.g. documentation stuff

Ronald
May 24 '08 #3
Shalini Bhalla
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i want to write a program in which i want to get title & metatag for for a particular site i type in textbox , is curl going to help me in that ? and if yes how ? what settings i need to do with server settings
May 24 '08 #4
rpnew
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i want to write a program in which i want to get title & metatag for for a particular site i type in textbox , is curl going to help me in that ? and if yes how ? what settings i need to do with server settings
hi,
well yes you can do that... cURL will get you the page and then you can do processing on that... I dont have much idea about that.. but someone here will surely help you..

Reagards,
RP
May 24 '08 #5

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