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What does for curl do?
cURL stands for “client URL” and is a command line tool that allows you to interact with websites. You can use it to make any type of web request. This means you can use cURL to get information from APIs, download webpages or submit data to an API.
What is curl and how do you use it?
Sending API requests using cURL
- libcurl is a free, client-side URL transfer library with support for a wide range of protocols.
- cURL is a command-line tool for getting or sending files using URL syntax.
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- cURL request formatting.
- Uploading file data using cURL.
What are some of the features of curl?
curl offers a busload of useful tricks like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL (https:) connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more. As you will see below, the amount of features will make your head spin! curl is powered by libcurl for all transfer-related features.
What can you do with the curl API?
Curl already supports the communication protocols needed to send data sets from the server to the client machine, and the Curl API includes a rich set of charting features as well as 2D and 3D graphics for building lucid, interactive data displays.
How to make curl display information on stdout?
Make curl display information on stdout after a completed transfer. The format is a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of variables. The format can be specified as a literal “string”, or you can have curl read the format from a file with “@filename” and to tell curl to read the format from stdin you write “@-“.
What is the default path for curl to use?
Normally curl is built to use a default file for this, so this option is typically used to alter that default file. curl recognizes the environment variable named ‘CURL_CA_BUNDLE’ if it is set, and uses the given path as a path to a CA cert bundle. This option overrides that variable.