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_ _ ____ _ Project ___| | | | _ \| | / __| | | | |_) | | | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| This document lists documents and standards used by curl. RFC 959 - FTP Protocol RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators RFC 1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification RFC 1952 - GZIP File Format Specification RFC 1959 - LDAP URL Syntax RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form based upload) RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616) RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff) - Also, read Netscape's specification at https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 Authentication RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL Format RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data" Use this as an addition to the RFC1867 RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned I've left it in this list. RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL) RFC 2821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109 RFC 3207 - SMTP Over TLS RFC 4616 - PLAIN Authentication RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication RFC 7932 - Brotli Compressed Data Format