CURL

[Rajinder Yadav]

Hi Chris, thanks for the link!

I do recall reading this one last night and bookmarking. It's a easy
read and gives you all the details you need as a webmaster.

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
<chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>
>> curl man page[1] is actually really good. But if you don't know basic
>> HTTP protocol it is really complicated. Take a look at the HTTP
>> Protocol RFC 2616[2] which provides all the information you will ever
>> need.
>>
>> A good place to learn about cookie's is the Wikipedia page[3].
>>
>> Also if you don't like the command line check out hurl[4] and it's source[5].
>>
>> I provide a basic guide to interfacing curl with Apache CouchDB in my
>> slides from Ontario Linux Fest[6].
>>
>> Sorry I couldn't provide anymore information. The HTTP protocol is
>> really complex and learning it will require reading a lot of RFCs.
>
>   The HTTP protocol is really not that difficult. I found this page
>   which explains it: <http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/>.
>
>   It gave me all the info I needed to write a shell HTTP client:
>   <http://cfajohnson.com/shell/scripts/httpClient-sh>
>
>
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