a new version of the utility for receiving and sending data over the network - , which provides the ability to generate a flexible request with the setting of parameters such as cookie, user_agent, referer, and any other headers. cURL supports HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2.0, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, RTSP, RTMP and other network protocols. At the same time, an update was released for the parallel developed libcurl library, which provides an API for enabling all curl functions in programs in languages ββsuch as C, Perl, PHP, Python.
Π added a new backend to support the SSH protocol, prepared using the library . The backend allows you to transfer data using
SFTP with minimal overhead, which makes it possible to use it in collections for embedded systems. SCP in the added backend is not yet supported (for SCP, you should use the old backend based on ).
Other changes in curl 7.69 include support for the PolarSSL library (development continued as part of the project , whose support is retained) and in the backend for the SMTP protocol the "CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT_ALLLOWFAILS" ("--mail-rcpt-allowfails") option, which, when specified, allows the rejection of "RCPT TO" commands for individual recipients from the list.
Source: opennet.ru