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This document has been introduced in order to let you find documents that
specify standards used by curl, software that extends curl and web pages with
"competing" utilities.

Standards

  RFC 959  - Defines how FTP works
  RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
  RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
  RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
  RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
                  based upload)
  RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1
  RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
  RFC 2183 - "The Content-Disposition Header Field"
  RFC 2229 - "A Dictionary Server Protocol"
  RFC 2231 - "MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
              Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations"
  RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
   Use this as an addition to the 1867 

  RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" 
   This one obsoletes 1738, but since 1738 is often mentioned I've left it
   in this list.

  RFC 2428 - "FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs"
   This should be considered when introducing IPv6 awareness.

  HTTP/1.1 rev 6 (internet draft) - This defines some interesting new things
  that differs from the RFC2068 definitions. CONNECT being one of the most
  obvious.
    http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt
 
  "Tunneling TCP based protocols through Web proxy servers" - This is what
  describes how to use SSL connections through a web proxy.
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-luotonen-web-proxy-tunneling-01.txt


Software

  SSLeay  - http://www.ssleay.org
	    (You may want the PKCS#12-patch for SSLeay to read Netscape or MSIE
	     certificates, located at: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/)

  OpenSSL - http://www.openssl.org

Competitors

  wget    - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/
  snarf   - http://www.xach.com/snarf/
  lynx    - http://lynx.browser.org/ (well at least when -dump is used)
  swebget - http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~smol0075/swebget/
  fetch   - ?

