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Re: cURL Abbreviation

From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 12:06:58 +0530

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>
> Just curious to know what does c means in cURL
>>
>
> Quoting http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#What_is_cURL :
>
> cURL is the name of the project. The name is a play on 'Client for URLs',
> originally with URL spelled in uppercase to make it obvious it deals with
> URLs. The fact it can also be pronounced 'see URL' also helped, it works
> as
> an abbreviation for "Client URL Request Library" or why not the recursive
> version: "Curl URL Request Library".
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se
>

Hi

I am testing an Internal URL with both cURL and LiveHTTPHeaders , In
LiveHTTPHeaders I am able to see Content-Encoding: gzip
but not in cURL

I am using curl -I URL, Any ideas

Thanks and Regards

Kaushal
Received on 2008-05-30