In 2008 (just as the U.S. economy began circling the drain) here in Gearhead <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2008/052108-gearhead.html">I wrote</a> about updating <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/052610-twitter-quiz.html">Twitter</a> with <a href="http://curl.haxx.se/">cURL</a>, a free, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/">open source</a>, command line utility that allows you to transfer data with URL syntax using, and I quote, "DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP [along with] SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, [user name and password] authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos ...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks."