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The URL parser got a little stricter as it now considers a ? to be a host name divider so that the slightly sloppier URLs work too. The problem that made me do this change was the reported problem with an URL like: www.example.com?email=name@example.com This form of URL is not really a legal URL (due to the missing slash after the host name) but is widely accepted by all major browsers and libcurl also already accepted it, it was just the '@' letter that triggered the problem now. The side-effect of this change is that now libcurl no longer accepts the ? letter as part of user-name or password when given in the URL, which it used to accept (and is tested in test 191). That letter is however mentioned in RFC3986 to be required to be percent encoded since it is used as a divider. Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=3090268
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README
Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL
syntax. Find out how to use curl by reading the curl.1 man page or the
MANUAL document. Find out how to install Curl by reading the INSTALL
document.
libcurl is the library curl is using to do its job. It is readily
available to be used by your software. Read the libcurl.3 man page to
learn how!
You find answers to the most frequent questions we get in the FAQ document.
Study the COPYING file for distribution terms and similar. If you distribute
curl binaries or other binaries that involve libcurl, you might enjoy the
LICENSE-MIXING document.
CONTACT
If you have problems, questions, ideas or suggestions, please contact us
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All contributors to the project are listed in the THANKS document.
WEB SITE
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http://curl.haxx.se/
GIT
To download the very latest source off the GIT server do this:
git clone git://github.com/bagder/curl.git
(you'll get a directory named curl created, filled with the source code)
NOTICE
Curl contains pieces of source code that is Copyright (c) 1998, 1999
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan. This notice is included here to comply with the
distribution terms.