/perl6-net-curl

Use libcurl (client-side URL transfer library) API in Perl 6

Primary LanguagePerl 6MIT LicenseMIT

Net::Curl

Net::Curl provides a Perl 6 interface to libcurl. The plan is support the libcurl Easy interface first and run all the libcurl website examples and then support an object-oriented interface.

libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library. It supports DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more!

Build Status

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Linux / Mac OS X Build Status Travis CI
Windows 7 64-bit Build status AppVeyor

Installation

  • Since Net::Curl uses libcurl, libcurl.so must be found in /usr/lib. To install libcurl on Debian for example, please use the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev
  • On Mac OS X, Please use the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install curl
  • Using panda (a module management tool bundled with Rakudo Star):
$ panda update
$ panda install Net::Curl

Testing

To run tests:

$ prove -e "perl6 -Ilib"

Author

Ahmad M. Zawawi, azawawi on #perl6, https://github.com/azawawi/

License

MIT License