And it has a great blog post on using cURL with FileMaker.īBox (also free) lets you run Python, AppleScript, Perl, PHP, Ruby and shell scripts in addition to cURL, and dozens of other functions, too. It has well over 2400 plugins along with plenty of example files, and lets you do things no other plugin offers.

Since the Base Elements Plugin is free and a great plugin with a lot of functions, most developers use it for cURL and other things, like SOAP, JSON, and more.īut don’t just blow off the MBS plugin because you have to buy it. And to use it with FileMaker, we need a plugin to use and control all the features. That makes cURL quite possibly the most used and least known critical product in the world. The curl project follows well established open source best practises.

It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, media players and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily.Ĭurl is free and open source software and exists thanks to thousands of contributors. Or as the official cURL website puts it:Ĭurl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. Believe it or not, cURL and FileMaker know each other. FileMaker makes use of cURL, but developer access to the commands is limited – hopefully that will change in the next release of FileMaker.ĬURL (originally from “see-URL”) is pretty much the glue that holds the internet together.

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