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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.