Here is an overview of the main sections of this book and what they cover.

1. The cURL project​

Project things. How it started, how we work and how often releases are made.

2. Open Source​

An attempt to explain what open source is and how it works.

3. The source code​

A description of the curl source tree and how the layout of the code is and works.

4. Network and protocols​

What exactly are networks and protocols?

5. Command line basics​

Start at the beginning. How do you use curl from a command line?

6. Using curl​

Going deeper, looking at things you do with curl the command line tool.

7. How to HTTP with curl​

Digging deeper on HTTP specific actions to do with the curl command line tool.

8. Building and installing​

Explaining how you can build curl and libcurl from source code.

9. libcurl basics​

How libcurl works and how you use it when writing your own applications with it.

10. HTTP with libcurl​

A closer look at doing HTTP specific things with libcurl.

11. Bindings​

A casual overview of some of the most popular libcurl bindings and how similar they are to the libcurl C API.

12. libcurl internals​

Under the hood it works like this…

13. Index​

The index.