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foss-sthlm-12-curl-snack

curl and new technologies by Daniel Stenberg
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curl and libcurl[1] was started in 1998 and is currently possibly used by more
than 500 million users regularly. It is widely considered to be the defacto
multi platform URL transfer library and it is the empowering foundation of
countless open source and proprietary apps in addition to millions of sites
and products.

This talk is partly a look back at how the cURL project ended up like this
without any particular company backing and where fifteen years of development
have taken us, but primarily a look forward towards the future and a walk-
through of some of the challenges that we see coming up ahead for the project
and the web in the coming years.

Upcoming technologies keywords that libcurl is about to tackle in various ways
include Happy Eyeballs, DANE, SRV/URI records, HTTP pipelining, http2 / SPDY,
new/more HTTP auths, SSL-to-proxy and not the least how to steer a volounteer
driven project through all this and maintain quality and excel in performance.

Daniel Stenberg[2] is the founder and lead developer of curl and libcurl and
is involved in many open source projects as well as a couple of IETF work
groups.

This is a technical talk for an audience with interests in internet transfers,
protocols and open source.

[1] = http://curl.haxx.se/
[2] = http://daniel.haxx.se/