Packages and Binaries:

curl

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP.

curl 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, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Installed size: 518 KB
How to install: sudo apt install curl

Dependencies:
  • libc6
  • libcurl4
  • zlib1g
curl

Transfer a URL

root@kali:~# curl -h
Usage: curl [options...] <url>
 -d, --data <data>          HTTP POST data
 -f, --fail                 Fail fast with no output on HTTP errors
 -h, --help <category>      Get help for commands
 -i, --include              Include protocol response headers in the output
 -o, --output <file>        Write to file instead of stdout
 -O, --remote-name          Write output to a file named as the remote file
 -s, --silent               Silent mode
 -T, --upload-file <file>   Transfer local FILE to destination
 -u, --user <user:password> Server user and password
 -A, --user-agent <name>    Send User-Agent <name> to server
 -v, --verbose              Make the operation more talkative
 -V, --version              Show version number and quit

This is not the full help, this menu is stripped into categories.
Use "--help category" to get an overview of all categories.
For all options use the manual or "--help all".

libcurl3-gnutls

libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting 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!

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

SSL support is provided by GnuTLS.

Installed size: 903 KB
How to install: sudo apt install libcurl3-gnutls

Dependencies:
  • libbrotli1
  • libc6
  • libgnutls30
  • libgssapi-krb5-2
  • libidn2-0
  • libldap-2.5-0
  • libnettle8
  • libnghttp2-14
  • libpsl5
  • librtmp1
  • libssh2-1
  • libzstd1
  • zlib1g

libcurl4

libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting 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!

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

SSL support is provided by OpenSSL.

Installed size: 927 KB
How to install: sudo apt install libcurl4

Dependencies:
  • libbrotli1
  • libc6
  • libgssapi-krb5-2
  • libidn2-0
  • libldap-2.5-0
  • libnghttp2-14
  • libpsl5
  • librtmp1
  • libssh2-1
  • libssl3
  • libzstd1
  • zlib1g

libcurl4-doc

libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting 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!

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

This package provides the documentation files for libcurl.

Installed size: 2.03 MB
How to install: sudo apt install libcurl4-doc


libcurl4-gnutls-dev

libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting 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!

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

This package provides the development files (ie. includes, static library, manual pages) that allow one to build software which uses libcurl.

SSL support is provided by GnuTLS.

Installed size: 1.85 MB
How to install: sudo apt install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Dependencies:
  • libcurl3-gnutls
curl-config

Get information about a libcurl installation

root@kali:~# curl-config --help
Usage: curl-config [OPTION]

Available values for OPTION include:

  --built-shared says 'yes' if libcurl was built shared
  --ca        ca bundle install path
  --cc        compiler
  --cflags    pre-processor and compiler flags
  --checkfor [version] check for (lib)curl of the specified version
  --configure the arguments given to configure when building curl
  --features  newline separated list of enabled features
  --help      display this help and exit
  --libs      library linking information
  --prefix    curl install prefix
  --protocols newline separated list of enabled protocols
  --ssl-backends output the SSL backends libcurl was built to support
  --static-libs static libcurl library linking information
  --version   output version information
  --vernum    output the version information as a number (hexadecimal)

libcurl4-openssl-dev

libcurl is an easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting 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!

libcurl is free, thread-safe, IPv6 compatible, feature rich, well supported, fast, thoroughly documented and is already used by many known, big and successful companies and numerous applications.

This package provides the development files (ie. includes, static library, manual pages) that allow one to build software which uses libcurl.

SSL support is provided by OpenSSL.

Installed size: 1.88 MB
How to install: sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Dependencies:
  • libcurl4
curl-config

Get information about a libcurl installation

root@kali:~# curl-config --help
Usage: curl-config [OPTION]

Available values for OPTION include:

  --built-shared says 'yes' if libcurl was built shared
  --ca        ca bundle install path
  --cc        compiler
  --cflags    pre-processor and compiler flags
  --checkfor [version] check for (lib)curl of the specified version
  --configure the arguments given to configure when building curl
  --features  newline separated list of enabled features
  --help      display this help and exit
  --libs      library linking information
  --prefix    curl install prefix
  --protocols newline separated list of enabled protocols
  --ssl-backends output the SSL backends libcurl was built to support
  --static-libs static libcurl library linking information
  --version   output version information
  --vernum    output the version information as a number (hexadecimal)

Updated on: 2024-Feb-16