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+  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
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+
+This document lists documents and standards used by curl.
+
+  RFC 959  - The FTP protocol
+
+  RFC 1635 - How to Use Anonymous FTP
+
+  RFC 1738 - Uniform Resource Locators
+
+  RFC 1777 - defines the LDAP protocol
+
+  RFC 1808 - Relative Uniform Resource Locators
+
+  RFC 1867 - Form-based File Upload in HTML
+
+  RFC 1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification
+
+  RFC 1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
+
+  RFC 1952 - gzip compression format
+
+  RFC 1959 - LDAP URL syntax
+
+  RFC 2045-2049 - Everything you need to know about MIME! (needed for form
+                  based upload)
+
+  RFC 2068 - HTTP 1.1 (obsoleted by RFC 2616)
+
+  RFC 2104 - Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
+
+  RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism (cookie stuff)
+           - Also, read Netscape's specification at
+             http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/cookie_spec.html
+
+  RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header Field
+
+  RFC 2195 - CRAM-MD5 authentication
+
+  RFC 2229 - A Dictionary Server Protocol
+
+  RFC 2255 - Newer LDAP URL syntax document.
+
+  RFC 2231 - MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
+             Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations
+
+  RFC 2388 - "Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data"
+             Use this as an addition to the RFC1867
+
+  RFC 2396 - "Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax and Semantics" This
+             one obsoletes RFC 1738, but since RFC 1738 is often mentioned
+             I've left it in this list.
+
+  RFC 2428 - FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
+
+  RFC 2577 - FTP Security Considerations
+
+  RFC 2616 - HTTP 1.1, the latest
+
+  RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication
+
+  RFC 2718 - Guidelines for new URL Schemes
+
+  RFC 2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
+
+  RFC 2818 - HTTP Over TLS (TLS is the successor to SSL)
+
+  RFC 2821 - SMTP protocol
+
+  RFC 2964 - Use of HTTP State Management
+
+  RFC 2965 - HTTP State Management Mechanism. Cookies. Obsoletes RFC2109
+
+  RFC 3207 - SMTP over TLS
+
+  RFC 4616 - PLAIN authentication
+
+  RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication