235 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Stenberg
a28464ae77 docs: reduce/avoid English contractions
You're => You are
Hasn't => Has not
Doesn't => Does not
Don't => Do not
You'll => You will
etc

Closes #7930
2021-11-07 23:16:27 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
92efb3db7e docs: reduce use of "very"
"Very" should be avoided in most texts. If intensifiers are needed, try
find better words instead.

Closes #7936
2021-11-01 16:13:12 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
5ad23d5c07 FAQ: polish the explanation of libcurl 2021-10-20 09:24:18 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
7aa79dce10 FAQ: add GOPHERS + curl works on data, not files 2021-09-15 14:33:05 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
352b07fcce FAQ: add two dev related questions
8.1 Why does curl use C89?
  8.2 Will curl be rewritten?

Spell-checked-by: Paul Johnson
Closes #7715
2021-09-14 08:17:42 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
ab2f27cf88 docs: the security list is reached at security at curl.se now
Also update the FAQ section a bit to encourage users to rather submit
security issues on hackerone than sending email.

Closes #7689
2021-09-10 10:51:12 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
b03b82a85f docs/tests: remove freenode references 2021-05-24 00:21:00 +02:00
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
246399a874 vtls: initial implementation of rustls backend
This adds a new TLS backend, rustls. It uses the C-to-rustls bindings
from https://github.com/abetterinternet/crustls.

Rustls is at https://github.com/ctz/rustls/.

There is still a fair bit to be done, like sending CloseNotify on
connection shutdown, respecting CAPATH, and properly indicating features
like "supports TLS 1.3 ciphersuites." But it works well enough to make
requests and receive responses.

Blog post for context:
https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/memory-safe-curl/

Closes #6350
2021-02-09 11:06:18 +01:00
XhmikosR
aadc75626b misc: assorted typo fixes
Closes #6375
2020-12-26 23:54:25 +01:00
Dan Fandrich
2a264d494e docs: Fix some typos
[skip ci]
2020-12-12 09:59:28 -08:00
Daniel Stenberg
65bc682524 FAQ: remove "Why is there a HTTP/1.1 in my HTTP/2 request?"
This hasn't been the case for a while now, remove.
2020-11-06 09:28:49 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
3864ad37e1 FAQ: refresh "Why do I get "certificate verify failed"
Add more details, remove references to ancient curl version.
2020-11-06 09:16:06 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
490879ea89 FAQ: refreshed
- remove a few ancient questions
 - add configure with static libs question
 - updated wording in several places
 - lowercased curl

Closes #6177
2020-11-05 16:54:12 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
afbf7d260c docs: Fix various typos in documentation
Closes #6171
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
2020-11-05 09:36:24 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
4d2f800677 curl.se: new home
Closes #6172
2020-11-04 23:59:47 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
d63b3908da FAQ: refreshed some very old language 2020-09-07 17:08:07 +02:00
H3RSKO
3d221409e2 docs: change "web site" to "website"
According to wikipedia:

 While "web site" was the original spelling, this variant has become
 rarely used, and "website" has become the standard spelling

Closes #5822
2020-08-17 00:14:18 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
72b1aaf9da docs: unify protocol lists
We boast support for 25 transfer protocols. Make sure the lists are
consistent

Closes #5384
2020-05-13 16:51:19 +02:00
Michael Forney
9b879160df TLS: add BearSSL vtls implementation
Closes #4597
2019-11-26 08:32:23 +01:00
dbrowndan
84086b39c1 FAQ: more minor updates and spelling fixes
Closes #3937
2019-05-25 23:33:53 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
1640bb6fc2 FAQ: minor updates and spelling fixes 2019-02-28 09:09:51 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
b3d111ae15 FAQ: remove mention of sourceforge for github
The project bug tracker is no longer hosted at sourceforge but is now
hosted on the curl Github page. Update the FAQ to reflect.

Closes #3410
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
2018-12-25 23:20:55 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
302d125b42 axtls: removed
As has been outlined in the DEPRECATE.md document, the axTLS code has
been disabled for 6 months and is hereby removed.

Use a better supported TLS library!

Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Closes #3194
2018-11-01 10:29:53 +01:00
Viktor Szakats
ff9d7f4447 spelling fixes [ci skip]
as detected by codespell 1.14.0

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3114
Reviewed-by: Marcel Raad <Marcel.Raad@teamviewer.com>
2018-10-08 19:37:40 +00:00
Viktor Szakats
f078361c0e URL and mailmap updates, remove an obsolete directory [ci skip]
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3031
2018-09-22 07:58:32 +00:00