[Info-vax] cURL

[Mark Berryman]

On 8/24/18 4:25 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 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.

ALDUR$ curl --version
curl 7.61.0 (ALPHA-HP-VMS) libcurl/7.61.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2n zlib/1.2.11 
nghttp2/1.31.0
Release-Date: 2018-07-11
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps 
pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL libz 
TLS-SRP HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy MultiSSL

ALDUR2$ curl --version
curl 7.61.0 (IA64-HP-VMS) libcurl/7.61.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2n zlib/1.2.11 
nghttp2/1.31.0
Release-Date: 2018-07-11
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps 
pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL libz 
TLS-SRP HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy MultiSSL


Happy to provide a copy to anyone who wants it.

Mark Berryman