CURL

[Rajinder Yadav]

Chris F.A. Johnson 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/>.

Chris, the other http intro I found that I really liked reading was:

http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/http-tut.html

you or anyone else might like it also, but still I am looking for a good 
curl usage tutorial for the command like tool.

> 
>    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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