It’s kind of like an internet swiss army knife. Reason one is that cURL is neat, and I mean really neat. You like this cURL thing, why should I learn about it?”. While it does have its quirkiness and issues, it’s useful for a developer to know how it works and what it does. Pretty much every protocol you can imagine – cURL supports.ĬURL has been around since 1998 and turns 23 in 2021, close to a quarter of a century old! But it’s still quite powerful and modern, and it is in very active development with no signs of slowing down.
Not just HTTP, but HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and even Gopher. The libcurl library is an open source URL transfer library and supports a wide variety of protocols. Programming languages like PHP include the libcurl library as a module, allowing them to provide the cURL functionality natively. cURL is really two pieces, libcurl which is the C library that does all the magic, and the cURL CLI program. If you’re curious about the power of the cURL library, how it works with WordPress and what to watch out for (especially on macOS), then you’re in the right place. Unsurprisingly, it’s also a core utility used by WordPress’ Requests API as well as most of our plugins WP Migrate DB Pro, WP Offload Media and WP Offload SES. Many PHP projects and libraries that need to send or receive data over the network use cURL as the default network library under the hood. It’s the networking backbone of thousands of applications and services, including some very interesting places like unnamed NASA projects.
According to the cURL website, the library is used by billions of people daily in everything from cars and television sets, to mobile phones. As its tagline says, cURL is a utility piece of software used to ‘ transfer data with urls‘. CURL is the workhorse of the modern internet.
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