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cURL Command Line Tool & Library

Overview
cURL is an open-source command line tool and library written in C with over 5 billion installations worldwide. 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, set-top
boxes, and media players, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans every
day. The cURL software project provides a library for transferring data using various protocols. These protocols include (but are not
limited to) FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS and more.

Usage Highlights
cURL can be used in multiple different ways depending on • Commercial support offered
the desired end result. curl is ideal for secure data transfer. It • Can be built with wolfCrypt FIPS 140-2/140-3 and FIPS ready
allows enterprise customers to securely transfer critical • Optimization support and consulting offered
business information between users, locations and partners • Custom cURL builds available
in compliance with data security regulations such as • cURL subscription packages available
HIPAA, PCI DSS and the EU’s GDPR. • cURL origional author and founder, Daniel Stenberg, part of the
If the user wants to have a task that repetitively checks the
wolfSSL team
status of a server’s HTTP/SSH processes, it can be used to
• Auditable file transfer
securely download .zip files through a proxy, it has the
abilty to do this as well. • Precision file transfer protocols
• Verbose output options
tinycurl • Backward compatability
For resource constrained and embedded users, wolfSSL has • Platform agnostic
created tinycurl! tinycurl is a version of curl that is capable • High performance data transfers
of performing HTTPS and fits within 100K (including the • Customizable feature set
wolfSSL library) on a typical 32-bit architecture. It is • Extensive documentation
approximately one-quarter of the size of the typical curl
• Open source
build on Debian-based Linux with an x86-64 architecture.
• Foundation of support and consulting provided by origional
cURL author and founder
Subscription Packages • Available for dual-licensing
cURL subscription packages make it easier than ever to use
cURL, libcurl, and tiny-curl in non-traditional, embedded, or
challenging environments. Includes support for:
• Non-mainstream operating systems Support Page: www.wolfssl.com/products/support-packages/
• Embedded and RTOS environments Product Page: www.wolfssl.com/products/curl/
• Security and application integrations
GitHub location: github.com/curl/curl

Supported Protocols
MQTT, DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS,
IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS,
POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS,
SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, and more.

For more information on using cURL with your project,


please contact support@wolfssl.com.

wolfssl.com
github.com/wolfssl
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