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Each category holds a number of documentation pages. <h2> The book: Everything curl </h2> <p> This is a detailed and totally free book, available <a href="https://everything.curl.dev/">online</a> (and as a PDF as a link from there) that explains everything there is to know about curl, libcurl and the associated project. <p> Learn how to use curl. How to use libcurl. How to build them from source or perhaps how the curl project accepts contributions. 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