reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old

reuse: add copyright + license info to individual docs/*.md files

Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.

+ Remove mention of old files from .reuse/dep5
+ add info to .github/dependabot.yml
+ make scripts/copyright.pl warn on non-matching patterns

Closes #13245

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docs: use present tense

avoid "will", detect "will" as a bad word in the CI

Also line wrapped a bunch of paragraphs

Closes #13001

badwords: use hostname, not host name

and username, filename - consistently. Fixed the patterns in
badwords.txt to catch these.

Closes #12888

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want

GHA: add a job scanning for "bad words" in markdown

This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.

Closes #12764

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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: use a space after RFC when spelling out RFC numbers

Closes #11382

tool: add curl command line option `--trace-ids`

- added and documented --trace-ids to prepend (after the timestamp)
the transfer and connection identifiers to each verbose log line

tool: add curl command line option `--trace-ids`

- added and documented --trace-ids to prepend (after the timestamp)
the transfer and connection identifiers to each verbose log line
- format is [n-m] with `n` being the transfer id and `m` being the
connection id. In case there is not valid connection id, print 'x'.
- Log calls with a handle that has no transfer id yet, are written
without any ids.

Closes #11185

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docs: minor polish

- "an HTTP*" (not "a")
- remove a few contractions
- remove a spurious "a"
- reduce use of "I" in texts

Closes #11040

docs: spellfixes

Pointed by the new CI job

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: grammar proofread, typo fixes

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

Closes #8353

docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: fix example POST URL

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/8352

docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: fix capitalization

Closes #8333

docs: reduce/avoid English contractions

You're => You are
Hasn't => Has not
Doesn't => Does not
Don't => Do not
You'll => You will
etc

Closes #7930

docs: reduce use of "very"

"Very" should be avoided in most texts. If intensifiers are needed, try
find better words instead.

Closes #7936

TheArtOfHttpScripting: polish

- add missing backticks and comma

- fix proxy description:

* example proxy isn't local
* locally doesn't really make sense

Closes

TheArtOfHttpScripting: polish

- add missing backticks and comma

- fix proxy description:

* example proxy isn't local
* locally doesn't really make sense

Closes #7416

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docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: fix markdown links

extra parens cause the links to be incorrectly formatted
and inconsistent with the rest of the document.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Beck-

docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: fix markdown links

extra parens cause the links to be incorrectly formatted
and inconsistent with the rest of the document.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Beck-Buysse <rbuysse@gmail.com>
Closes #7097

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docs: enable syntax highlighting in several docs files

... for better readability

Closes #6286

docs: Fix various typos in documentation

Closes #6171
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>

curl.se: new home

Closes #6172

docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: convert to markdown

Makes it easier to browse on github etc. Offers (better) links.

It should be noted that this document is already mostly outdated and

docs/TheArtOfHttpScripting: convert to markdown

Makes it easier to browse on github etc. Offers (better) links.

It should be noted that this document is already mostly outdated and
"Everything curl" at https://ec.haxx.se/ is a better resource and
tutorial.

Closes #5981

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