tidy-up: OS names

Use these words and casing more consistently across text, comments and
one curl tool output:
AIX, ALPN, ANSI, BSD, Cygwin, Darwin, FreeBSD, GitHub, HP-UX, Linux,

tidy-up: OS names

Use these words and casing more consistently across text, comments and
one curl tool output:
AIX, ALPN, ANSI, BSD, Cygwin, Darwin, FreeBSD, GitHub, HP-UX, Linux,
macOS, MS-DOS, MSYS, MinGW, NTLM, POSIX, Solaris, UNIX, Unix, Unicode,
WINE, WebDAV, Win32, winbind, WinIDN, Windows, Windows CE, Winsock.

Mostly OS names and a few more.

Also a couple of other minor text fixups.

Closes #14360

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tidy-up: adjust casing of project names

Mostly TLS/SSH project name.

Closes #14160

docs: misc language polish

- CURLINFO_FILETIME*: improve language
- add '32bit' and '64bit' as bad words, use 32-bit and 64-bit
- mksymbolsmanpage.pl: avoid "will"

Closes #1

docs: misc language polish

- CURLINFO_FILETIME*: improve language
- add '32bit' and '64bit' as bad words, use 32-bit and 64-bit
- mksymbolsmanpage.pl: avoid "will"

Closes #14070

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misc: fix typos

Closes #13344

tidy-up: use more example domains

Also make use of the example TLD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.example

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes #11992

docs: replace made up domains with example.com

in FAQ and MANUAL.md

- example.com was made for this purpose.

- reduces the risk that one of those domains suddenly start hos

docs: replace made up domains with example.com

in FAQ and MANUAL.md

- example.com was made for this purpose.

- reduces the risk that one of those domains suddenly start hosting
something nasty and we provide links to them

Closes #11986

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FAQ: How do I upgrade curl.exe in Windows?

This is a growing question, better answer it here to get somewhere to
point users to.

Closes #11984

docs: rewrite to present tense

... instead of using future tense.

+ numerous cleanups and improvements
+ stick to "reuse" not "re-use"
+ fewer contractions

Closes #

docs: rewrite to present tense

... instead of using future tense.

+ numerous cleanups and improvements
+ stick to "reuse" not "re-use"
+ fewer contractions

Closes #11713

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gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend

gskit: remove

We remove support for building curl with gskit.

- This is a niche TLS library, only running on some IBM systems
- no regular curl contributors use this backend
- no CI builds use or verify this backend
- gskit, or the curl adaption for it, lacks many modern TLS features
making it an inferior solution
- build breakages in this code take weeks or more to get detected
- fixing gskit code is mostly done "flying blind"

This removal has been advertized in DEPRECATED in Jan 2, 2023 and it has
been mentioned on the curl-library mailing list.

It could be brought back, this is not a ban. Given proper effort and
will, gskit support is welcome back into the curl TLS backend family.

Closes #11460

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nss: remove support for this TLS library

Closes #11459

docs: use a space after RFC when spelling out RFC numbers

Closes #11382

openssl: interop with AWS-LC

* Configure changes to detect AWS-LC
* CMakeLists.txt changes to detect AWS-LC
* Compile-time branches needed to support AWS-LC
* Correctly set OSSL_

openssl: interop with AWS-LC

* Configure changes to detect AWS-LC
* CMakeLists.txt changes to detect AWS-LC
* Compile-time branches needed to support AWS-LC
* Correctly set OSSL_VERSION and report AWS-LC release number
* GitHub Actions script to build with autoconf and cmake against AWS-LC

AWS-LC is a BoringSSL/OpenSSL derivative
For more information see https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lc/

Closes #10320

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http: don't send 100-continue for short PUT requests

This is already how curl is documented to behave in Everything curl, but
in actuality only short POSTs skip this. This should knock 3

http: don't send 100-continue for short PUT requests

This is already how curl is documented to behave in Everything curl, but
in actuality only short POSTs skip this. This should knock 30 seconds
off a full run of the test suite since the 100-continue timeout will no
longer be hit.

Closes #10740

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docs: spelling nits

- MingW -> MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows)
- f.e. -> e.g.
- some whitespace and punctuation.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg

Closes #9622

docs/WebSockets.md: docs

FAQ: remove opinionated sentence on NTLM

curl is a tool that support many different things, and it doesn't
really seem like our job to tell other what to use (as they might
not have

FAQ: remove opinionated sentence on NTLM

curl is a tool that support many different things, and it doesn't
really seem like our job to tell other what to use (as they might
not have much say in the matter even). Also tidy up wording.

Closes: #8886
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>

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FAQ: Clarify Windows double quote usage

- Windows command prompt doesn't use literal quoting via single quotes.

- Windows command prompt inner double quotes are escaped with a

FAQ: Clarify Windows double quote usage

- Windows command prompt doesn't use literal quoting via single quotes.

- Windows command prompt inner double quotes are escaped with a
backslash.

- Windows powershell does use single quotes but curl is not a powershell
script so the arguments may not be passed on correctly.

- Windows powershell inner double quotes seems can be passed to curl if
the outer quotes are double quotes and an escape of backslash-backtick
is used.

Command prompt example:

~~~
getargs -v -d "\"a\""

argv[0]: getargs
argv[1]: -v
argv[2]: -d
argv[3]: "a"
~~~

Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8818
Ref: https://gist.github.com/jay/19aba48653bd591cf4b90eb9249a302c

Reported-by: KotlinIsland@users.noreply.github.com

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8823

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docs: updates spellings with full words

Closes #8730

docs: lots of minor language polish

Mostly based on recent language decisions from "everything curl":

- remove contractions (isn't => is not)
- *an* HTTP (consistency)
- run

docs: lots of minor language polish

Mostly based on recent language decisions from "everything curl":

- remove contractions (isn't => is not)
- *an* HTTP (consistency)
- runtime (no hyphen)
- backend (no hyphen)
- URL is uppercase

Closes #8646

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docs: capitalize the name 'Netscape'

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8354

docs: grammar proofread, typo fixes

(Partially automated) proofread of most of the documentation, leading to
various typo fixes.

Closes #8353

misc: remove BeOS code and references

There has not been a mention of this OS in any commit since December
2004 (58f4af7973e3d2). The OS is also long gone.

Closes #8288

mesalink: remove support

Mesalink has ceased development. We can no longer encourage use of it.
It seems to be continued under the name TabbySSL, but no attempts have
(yet) been to m

mesalink: remove support

Mesalink has ceased development. We can no longer encourage use of it.
It seems to be continued under the name TabbySSL, but no attempts have
(yet) been to make curl support it.

Fixes #8188
Closes #8191

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docs: fix proselint nits

- remove a lot of exclamation marks
- use consistent spaces (1, not 2)
- use better words at some places

Closes #8123

FAQ: we never pronounced it "see URL", we say "kurl"