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Everything you need to know about curl.

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cURL stands for client URL.

It is used to establish communication between the client and the server.

You can fetch data and transfer data to the server using curl.

It might be surprising for you but curl supports 26 protocols.

Widely used protocols like HTTP, FTP, SMTP are also supported in the curl library.

Let's try to understand the syntax of sending requests using curl.

We are using HTTP protocol as it is widely used.

To send a request at a particular URL, you need to write the `curl` command followed by the URL.

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Not just simple GET requests, you can send all the HTTP requests using curl with HTTP headers and body.

How you can attach headers and other useful information in requests?

This is where curl options come into play.

Options give you the flexibility of passing an extra bit of information.

There are over 200 options but a few of them are widely used.

Options start with one (-) or two (--) dashes.

You can either specify an option using a single or double dash.

List of curl options: gist.github.com/eneko/dc2d8edd…

Here is the syntax of making API calls using curl with the verbose option. 👇🏻

With that being said, this is pretty much it for this brief introduction to curl.

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