Everything curl is meant to become the complete guide to everything there is to know about curl, the project, the command line tool, the library, how everything started and how it came to be what it is today. How we work on developing it further, what it takes to use it, how you can contribute with code and bug reports and why all those millions of existing users use it.
This book is meant to be readable by both casual readers and the somewhat more experienced developers, and I hope to offer something for you to pick and choose from. Don't read it from front to back. Read the chapters you're curious about and go back and forth as you see fit.
I hope to run this book project as I do all other projects I work on: in the open, completely free to download and read, free for anyone to comment on, available for everyone to contribute to and help out with. Send your bug reports, pull-requests or critiques to me and I'll improve this book accordingly.
This book will never be finished. I intend to keep working on it and while I may at some point in time consider it fairly complete and covering most aspects of the project (even if only that currently seems like an insurmountable goal), the curl project will continue to move so there will be things to update here as well.
This book project started at the end of September 2015. I have a basic layout plan for a first "edition". While I have no fixed time schedule for this, my hope is to have something decent by the summer 2016.
There will be a web site dedicated for this book. It is not made nor available yet, as there really is not enough content to show off to anyone yet anyway.
With the hope of becoming just a co-author of this material, I am Daniel Stenberg. I founded the curl project. I'm a developer at heart, for fun and profit. I live and work in Stockholm, Sweden.
All there is to know about me can be found on my web site http://daniel.haxx.se.