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This document lists various RFC documents and standards that are relevant for curl including FTP, HTTP, LDAP, cookies, TLS, authentication, and data formats such as MIME, GZIP, and Brotli.

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This document lists various RFC documents and standards that are relevant for curl including FTP, HTTP, LDAP, cookies, TLS, authentication, and data formats such as MIME, GZIP, and Brotli.

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This document lists documents and standards used by curl.

RFC 959 - FTP Protocol

RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP

RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators

RFC 1777 - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators

RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML

RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification

RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification

RFC 1952 - GZIP File Format Specification

RFC 1959 - LDAP URL Syntax

RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
based upload)

RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)

RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)


- Also, read Netscape's specification at
https://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html

RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field

RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 Authentication

RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol

RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL Format

RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:


Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations

RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"


Use this as an addition to the RFC1867

RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
I've left it in this list.

RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs


RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations

RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest

RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication

RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes

RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's

RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)

RFC 2821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management

RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109

RFC 3207 - SMTP Over TLS

RFC 4616 - PLAIN Authentication

RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication

RFC 7932 - Brotli Compressed Data Format

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