curl is a command line utility for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Curl is free and open software that compiles under a wide variety of operating systems.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Changes:
· recognize the [protocol]:// prefix in proxy hosts where the protocol is one of socks4, socks4a, socks5 or socks5h.
· Added CURLOPT_CLOSESOCKETFUNCTION and CURLOPT_CLOSESOCKETDATA

Bugfixes:
· SECURITY ADVISORY: inappropriate GSSAPI delegation
· NTLM: work with unicode
· fix connect with SOCKS proxy when using the multi interface
· anyauthput.c: stdint.h must not be included unconditionally
· CMake: improved build
· SCP/SFTP enable non-blocking earlier
· GnuTLS handshake: fix timeout
· cyassl: build without filesystem
· HTTPS over HTTP proxy using the multi interface
· speedcheck: invalid timeout event on a reused handle
· Force connection close for HTTP 200 OK when time condition matched
· curl_formget: fix FILE * leak
· configure: improved OpenSSL detection
· Android build: support gingerbread
· CURLFORM_STREAM: acknowledge CURLFORM_FILENAME
· windows build: use correct MS CRT
· pop3: remove extra space in LIST command