[Info-vax] cURL

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/24/2018 5:15 PM, 1UCX::LEENAD wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:35:44 +0000, 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?
> 
> 
> Switched from 7.15.2 to 7.19.15.
> Works just fine when needed; not that that's that often.
> 
> # curl --version
> curl 7.19.5 (ALPHA-HP-VMS) libcurl/7.19.5 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
> Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict http file https ftps
> Features: NTLM SSL
> 
> # help curl
>    Sorry, no documentation on CURL
> 
> curl --help gives a comprehensive one-liner summary of each option.
> For more than that web search "man curl".
> 
> The executables are tiny.  Can drop a copy on gladia if you want.

The vmsports version is 7.47.0:

EAGLE> curl --version
curl 7.47.0 (ALPHA-HP-VMS) libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8zb zlib/1.2.8
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps 
pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL libz

Note LDAP and Kerberos libraries are bundled with OpenVMS.

Regards,
-John