how-to-read.md

How to read this book

Here is an overview of the main sections of this book and what they cover.

1. The cURL project

Project things. How it started, how we work and how often releases are made.

2. Network and protocols

What exactly are networks and protocols?

3. Install curl

How and where to get and install curl.

4. Source code

A description of the curl source tree and how the layout of the code is and works.

5. Build curl

How to build curl and libcurl from source.

6. Command line basics

Start at the beginning. How do you use curl from a command line?

7. Using curl

Going deeper, looking at things you do with curl the command line tool.

8. HTTP with curl

Digging deeper on HTTP specific actions to do with the curl command line tool.

9. FTP with curl

Learn FTP specific operations in this chapter.

10. Using libcurl

How libcurl works and how you use it when writing your own applications with it.

11. HTTP with libcurl

A closer look at doing HTTP specific things with libcurl.

12. Bindings for libcurl

A casual overview of some of the most popular libcurl bindings and how similar they are to the libcurl C API.

13. libcurl internals

Under the hood it works like this…

14. Index

The index.