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8 This document lists documents and standards used by curl.
10 RFC 959 - The FTP protocol
12 RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP
14 RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
16 RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
18 RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
20 RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
22 RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
24 RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
26 RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
28 RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
30 RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
33 RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
35 RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
36 - Also, read Netscape's specification at
37 http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
39 RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field
41 RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol
43 RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
45 RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
46 Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
48 RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
49 Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
51 RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
52 one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
53 I've left it in this list.
55 RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
57 RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations
59 RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
61 RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
63 RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes
65 RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
67 RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)
69 RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management
71 RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109