[Info-vax] cURL

[Jim Duff]

On 23/08/18 05:35, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> How good/robust/useful is cURL for VMS?  I'm thinking of installing it.  
> Apparently one gets a PCSI file, which indicates that it is probably 
> well adapted to VMS.  Should I expect it to work out of the box?
> 
> Will installing it set up a corresponding DCL verb and add an entry in 
> the HELP library?
> 

I've been using libCURL from http://curl.haxx.se/ for a number of years
for a mission critical file distribution system using FTP and FTPs that
sends hundreds of thousands of documents a week.

It's been rock solid, and the API is very straightforward if you are
programming in C (the API is even called libcurl-easy, although there is
a more complex API if you need full control).  There are other language
bindings available if you need them.

The kit does not create a DCL verb or help library entries.  The command
line tool can be set up as a foreign symbol, and like most unix-y
utilities, you can access help with

$ curl --help

Jim