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8This document lists documents and standards used by curl.
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10  RFC 959  - The FTP protocol
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12  RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP
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14  RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
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16  RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
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18  RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
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20  RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
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22  RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
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24  RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
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26  RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
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28  RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
29
30  RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
31                  based upload)
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33  RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
34
35  RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
36
37  RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
38           - Also, read Netscape's specification at
39             http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
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41  RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field
42
43  RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 authentication
44
45  RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol
46
47  RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
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49  RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
50             Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
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52  RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
53             Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
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55  RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
56             one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
57             I've left it in this list.
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59  RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
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61  RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations
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63  RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
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65  RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
66
67  RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes
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69  RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
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71  RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)
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73  RFC 2821 - SMTP protocol
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75  RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management
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77  RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109
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79  RFC 3207 - SMTP over TLS
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81  RFC 4616 - PLAIN authentication
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83  RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication
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