CURL

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

1

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

cURL (pronounced like "curl", ) is a free and open-source computer program for transferring data to and from Internet servers. It can download resources identified by URLs from a web server over HTTP and supports a variety of other network protocols, URI schemes, multiple versions of HTTP, and proxying.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “CURL”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Software: Daniel Sternberg, [email protected], and many contributors Screenshot: VulcanSphere, MIT, via Wikimedia Commons.