July 28, 2003

Information retrieval with cURL

THIS WEEK NetSpeak focuses on a tool for automatically transferring files from the Net using a variety of Net protocols.

The innumerable and wide ranging Net resources available on the various servers across the Net are stored/retrieved using different well-defined methods or protocols. The web protocol HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and the Gopher protocol are three popular protocols.