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Re: curl and automatic proxy configuration/various sundry things

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:09:20 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sun, 19 May 2002 esp5_at_rama.comp.pge.com wrote:

> I was looking for a replacement for wget, saw curl and thought I might give
> it a try -

curl is not meant nor written to be a wget replacement. wget does things curl
doesn't, curl does things wget doesn't.

> So.. does curl support automatic proxy configuration?

No.

> timeouts?

Yes.

> automatic retry?

No.

> mirroring?

No.

> does it have a perl interface?

Yes.

You could check out the web site and docs too. Most of all this info actually
is to be found there!

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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Received on 2002-05-20