curl / libcurl / neon Comparison

Notes About neon compared to libcurl

These are some notes about libcurl compared against neon. If you have additional experiencies and comments you want to share with the world, we're all ears!

libcurl is more portable (VMS, OS/400, etc)
neon lacks support for: NTLM on non-windows, it doesn't offer SSL built to use NSS, it doesn't support cookies, it doesn't support compression deflating and it only supports HTTP(S) as transfer protocol
neon offers WebDAV support

"I found that libneon is actually a bit more efficient (maybe 33% fewer CPU cycles in a similar setup as above), but I think only because it does blocking reads. libneon is also a lot more work to use, as it forces the user to implement more of the HTTP session state machine." - Matt Gruenke