Curl Blog

RE: What would you do to make Curl better?

friedger — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:01:21 GMT

Thinking about why my employer didn't choose Curl leads me to the following suggesting: Curl can't change the runtime distribution or descrease the risks for enterprises - that is a different topic. Technically, it would be great to have a better integration with the office world. My employer was looking for an easy API to connect to Outlook, manipulate Excel or Word documents.

What I am missing is a business model for small companies/small commercial projects, but that's more a personal thing.

Friedger

RE: Curl Advanced UI: Effects and transitions!

rshiplett — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:28:55 GMT

I will try to find time to get some of these integrated in a live Curl page over at my site (especially seeing as the UI for framework from Paul Sheehan's book is in need of a facelift ...
Great to see this code come in open-source !

RE: Curl Blogging Contest!!

cbarber — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:59:16 GMT

BTW, it would be nice if there were a way to embed a Curl applet in a blog entry. Many blog engines allow you to insert arbitrary HTML including object tags.

RE: Curl Blogging Contest!!

cbarber — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:03:35 GMT

Sorry, we are not working on an iPhone port at this time.

RE: Curl Blogging Contest!!

friedger — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:26:07 GMT

I'd like to see Curl on Android phones!

RE: Curl Blogging Contest!!

Ron M — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:25:51 GMT

OOh!

Does this imply that Curl will soon be running on an iPhone?

I really hope so, since I've recently been working on smartphone apps, and think Curl would be a far far nicer environment for those than the existing environments.

RE: Web 2.0 Expo - New York

RMH — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:24:35 GMT

I just wanted to add that it was a real pleasure having the opportunity to talk to so many people about Curl. It's always rewarding to see people's eyes light up when we talk about the power of Curl - the technology sells itself!

Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations

RE: Why Criminal Hackers Will Love Adobe AIR

Mohan Embar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:12:19 GMT

Hi All,

My knee-jerk reaction to some of the things mentioned:

Java Webstart applications are sandboxed if they are unsigned so the above statement is incorrect. The same is true of an unsigned .NET executable, it runs just fine in a sandboxed environment until you try to do something like access the filesystem or even obtain a device context for drawing graphics. I don't know much about ClickOnce.

When you self-sign a Java Webstart application, the runtime issues a strongly-worded warning encouraging you not to run the application if you have any doubts. I can't remember what the exact wording is.

Similarly, in IE 7, when I use a self-signed certificate to test one of my web applications over https, IE complains very vociferously, gives me a page which looks like the action has been disallowed with a really tiny hyperlink to proceed anyway, then displays a really nasty red background for the URL in the address bar throughout the entirety of my session.

From what I'm reading from rhh, Adobe AIR simply says that the publisher is UNKNOWN. For me the difference in this approach vs. the approach taken by IE and JWS is clear. I don't think self-signed stuff should be disallowed, but the user should definitely be bludgeoned over the head if s/he is about to run it.

RE: Curl version 7 Beta 2 is Now Available!

URPradhan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:35:23 GMT

Sorry Duke !
I found the problem at Apache webserver as I was using the latest XAMPP (a combined toool for web server, mysql, perl, python, php, FileZilla, etc...) version, ie, 1.6.7 and now I replaced it with v1.6.6a and its working file in FF, Chrome, etc ..

Sorry for making dirty this thread

RE: Curl version 7 Beta 2 is Now Available!

Duke — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:11:39 GMT

Try copying those dlls to the plugins directory of your browsers. I think usually that is a directory at the top directory of the files installed for the browser.

Or try uninstalling Curl, logout, and then try doing the Curl installation again with your browsers not running. It is very uncommon for anyone to have the problem you are reporting, but I guess it is possible it is something that could be new with the new beta. Most people are not using Opera and Chrome, but if that was working previously for you I'm not sure why it would be a problem now. Although I think I would not expect the Curl plugin to work with Opera and Chrome if you install Curl after installing those browsers; the reason is that I expect those browsers might be copying the plugins from Firefox when Opera and Chrome are installed and do not check for additions later. I don't know if the Curl installer searches for Opera and Chrome to install plugins there, since those browsers are not officially supported.