1 _ _ ____ _ 2 Project ___| | | | _ \| | 3 / __| | | | |_) | | 4 | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ 5 \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| 6 7 8 This document lists documents and standards used by curl. 9 10 RFC 959 - The FTP protocol 11 12 RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP 13 14 RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators 15 16 RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol 17 18 RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators 19 20 RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML 21 22 RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification 23 24 RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification 25 26 RFC 1952 - gzip compression format 27 28 RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax 29 30 RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form 31 based upload) 32 33 RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616) 34 35 RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication 36 37 RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff) 38 - Also, read Netscape's specification at 39 https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html 40 41 RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field 42 43 RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 authentication 44 45 RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol 46 47 RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document. 48 49 RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: 50 Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations 51 52 RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data" 53 Use this as an addition to the RFC1867 54 55 RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This 56 one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned 57 I've left it in this list. 58 59 RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs 60 61 RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations 62 63 RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest 64 65 RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication 66 67 RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes 68 69 RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's 70 71 RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL) 72 73 RFC 2821 - SMTP protocol 74 75 RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management 76 77 RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109 78 79 RFC 3207 - SMTP over TLS 80 81 RFC 4616 - PLAIN authentication 82 83 RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication 84
