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Diffstat (limited to 'ftp/curl/pkg-descr')
| -rw-r--r-- | ftp/curl/pkg-descr | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ftp/curl/pkg-descr b/ftp/curl/pkg-descr index fae513bd2b17..7cbc20253764 100644 --- a/ftp/curl/pkg-descr +++ b/ftp/curl/pkg-descr @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ -curl is a client to get documents/files from servers, using any of the -supported protocols. The command is designed to work without user -interaction or any kind of interactivity. +curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in +cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, +tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for +thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily. -curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user -authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections, file -transfer resume and more. +It supports DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, +LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and +TFTP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP +form based upload, proxies, HTTP/2, cookies, user+password authentication +(Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos), file transfer +resume, proxy tunneling and more. WWW: https://curl.haxx.se/ |