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  command line tool and
library
  
for transferring data with URLs
  
(since 1998)

Supports...

DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT,
POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, 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, HTTP/3, cookies, user+password
authentication (Basic, Plain, Digest, CRAM-MD5, NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos),
file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and more.

What's curl used for?


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.

Who makes curl?


curl is free and open source software and exists
thanks to thousands of contributors and our
awesome sponsors. The curl
project follows well
established open source best practices. You too
can help us improve!

What's the latest curl?


The most recent stable version is 7.73.0, released on 14th of October 2020.
Currently, 90 of the listed downloads are of the latest version.


  Time to donate to the curl project?


Where's the code?


 Check out the latest source code
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