

Libcurl is a free client-side URL transfer library, supporting cookies, DICT, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP/1 (with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support), HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, HTTP proxy tunneling, HTTPS, IMAP, Kerberos, LDAP, MQTT, POP3, RTSP, RTMP, SCP, SMTP, and SMB. The original author and lead developer is the Swedish developer Daniel Stenberg, who created cURL because he wanted to automate the fetching of currency exchange rates for IRC users.

It was originally named httpget and then became urlget before adopting the current name of cURL. HTTPS, and FTP)ĬURL (pronounced like "curl", UK: /kəːl/, US: /kɝl/) is a computer software project providing a library ( libcurl) and command-line tool ( curl) for transferring data using various network protocols.
