Plurrrr

curl is an internet transfer engine. A rather modular one too. Parts of curl’s functionality is provided by selectable alternative implementations that we call backends. You select what backends to enable at build-time and in many cases the backends are enabled and powered by different 3rd party libraries.

I recently had the need to extract some data from a MySQL database running in production and while some methods are brutally simple and some a little more involved, all of them come with a few caveats.