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| 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 |