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cmdline/listopts.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ an additional "category" to `-h` to get more options listed for that specific
 area. Use `curl -h category` to list all existing categories or `curl -h all`
 to list *all* available options.
 
-Before curl 7.73.0, the help category system didn't exist and then `curl
+Before curl 7.73.0, the help category system did not exist and then `curl
 --help` or simply `curl -h` would simply list all existing options in
 alphabetical order with a brief explanation next to each.
 

cmdline/urls/fragment.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Fragment
 
-URLs offer a fragment part. That's usually seen as a hash symbol (#) and a
+URLs offer a fragment part. That is usually seen as a hash symbol (#) and a
 name for a specific name within a web page in browsers. An example of such a
 URL might look like:
 

get/win-msys2.md

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ This directory contains the PKGBUILD file and patches that are used for building
 makepkg-mingw --syncdeps --skippgpcheck
 ```
 
-That's it. The `--syncdeps` parameter will automatically check and prompt to install dependencies of `mingw-w64-curl` if these are not yet installed. Once the process is complete you will have 3 new files in the current directory, for example:
+That is it. The `--syncdeps` parameter will automatically check and prompt to install dependencies of `mingw-w64-curl` if these are not yet installed. Once the process is complete you will have 3 new files in the current directory, for example:
 
  - `pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-curl-7.80.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst`
  - `pacman -U mingw-w64-x86_64-curl-gnutls-7.80.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst`

http/auth.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ When asking to do an HTTP transfer using a single (specified or implied),
 authentication method, curl will insert the authentication header already in
 the first request on the wire.
 
-If you'd rather have curl first *test* if the authentication is really
+If you would rather have curl first *test* if the authentication is really
 required, you can ask curl to figure that out and then automatically use the
 most safe method it knows about with `--anyauth`. This makes curl try the
 request unauthenticated, and then switch over to authentication if necessary:

http/browserlike.md

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The site at https://example.com/ features a login prompt. The login on the web
 site is a HTML form to which you send a [HTTP POST](http-post.md) to. Save the
 response cookies and the response (HTML) output.
 
-Although the login page is visible (if you'd use a browser) on
+Although the login page is visible (if you would use a browser) on
 https://example.com/, the HTML form tag on that page informs you about which
 exact URL to send the POST to, using the `action` parameter.
 

http/modify/target.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 When given an input URL such as `http://example.com/file`, the path section of
 the URL gets extracted and is turned into `/file` in the HTTP request line.
-That item in the protocol is called the *request target* in HTTP. That's the
+That item in the protocol is called the *request target* in HTTP. That is the
 resource this request will interact with. Normally this request target is
 extracted from the URL and then used in the request and as a user you do not
 need to think about it.

http/multipart.md

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ to submit a multipart form as seen in HTML.
 2. Use the "development tools" in your favorite browser and inspect the POST
    request in the network tab after you have submitted it. Then convert that
    HTTP data to a curl command line. Unfortunately, the [copy as
-   curl](../usingcurl/copyas.md) feature in the browsers usually don't actually
+   curl](../usingcurl/copyas.md) feature in the browsers usually do not actually
    do multipart formposts particularly well.
 
 3. Inspect the source HTML and convert into a curl command line directly from

http/post.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ command line, you can also read it off a file name in standard curl style:
 ### Content-Type
 
 POSTing with curl's -d option will make it include a default header that looks
-like `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded`. That's what your
+like `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded`. That is what your
 typical browser will use for a plain POST.
 
 Many receivers of POST data do not care about or check the Content-Type

libcurl-http/auth.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ separately:
 
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PASSWORD, "secret");
 
-That's all you need. This will make libcurl switch on its default
+That is all you need. This will make libcurl switch on its default
 authentication method for this transfer: *HTTP Basic*.
 
 ## Authentication required

libcurl/callbacks/ftpmatch.md

@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ The end chunk callback can only return success or error.
 
 ## FTP matching callback
 
-If the default pattern matching function isn't to your liking, you can provide
+If the default pattern matching function is not to your liking, you can provide
 your own replacement function by setting the `CURLOPT_FNMATCH_FUNCTION` option
 to your alternative.

libcurl/curlcode.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## CURLcode return code
 
-Many libcurl functions return a CURLcode. That's a special libcurl typedeffed
+Many libcurl functions return a CURLcode. That is a special libcurl typedeffed
 variable for error codes. It returns `CURLE_OK` (which has the value zero) if
 everything is fine and dandy and it returns a non-zero number if a problem was
 detected. There are almost one hundred `CURLcode` errors in use, and you can

libcurl/names.md

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Name resolving
 
 Most transfers libcurl can do involves a name that first needs to be
-translated to an Internet address. That's "name resolving". Using a numerical
+translated to an Internet address. That is "name resolving". Using a numerical
 IP address directly in the URL usually avoids the name resolve phase, but in
 many cases it is not easy to manually replace the name with the IP address.
 
 libcurl tries hard to [re-use an existing
 connection](connectionreuse.md) rather than to create a new one. The
 function that checks for an existing connection to use is based purely on the
-name and is performed before any name resolving is attempted. That's one of
+name and is performed before any name resolving is attempted. That is one of
 the reasons the re-use is so much faster. A transfer using a reused connection
 will not resolve the host name again.
 

libcurl/sharing.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Sometimes applications need to share data between transfers. All easy handles
 added to the same multi handle automatically get a lot of sharing done between
-the handles in that same multi handle, but sometimes that's not exactly what
+the handles in that same multi handle, but sometimes that is not exactly what
 you want.
 
 ## Multi handle

libcurl/tlsoptions.md

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ TLS (FTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMTP), you usually tell curl to use the non-TLS
 version of the protocol when specifying a URL and then ask curl to enable TLS
 with the `CURLOPT_USE_SSL` option.
 
-This option allows a client to let curl continue if it cannot upgrade to TLS, but that's not a recommend path to walk as then you might be using an insecure
+This option allows a client to let curl continue if it cannot upgrade to TLS, but that is not a recommend path to walk as then you might be using an insecure
 protocol without properly noticing.
 
     /* require use of SSL for this, or fail */

opensource/copyright.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Copyright is a legal right granted by the law of a country that gives the
 creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution.
 
 The copyright owner(s) can agree to allow others to use their work by
-licensing it. That's what we do in the curl project. The copyright is the
+licensing it. That is what we do in the curl project. The copyright is the
 foundation on which the licensing works.
 
 Daniel Stenberg is the owner of most copyrights in the curl project.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ work together on a software project.
 The curl project obeys national laws of the countries in which it works. However,
 it is a highly visible international project, downloadable and usable in
 effectively every country on earth, so some local laws could be broken
-when using curl. That's just the nature of it and if uncertain, you should check
+when using curl. That is just the nature of it and if uncertain, you should check
 your own local situation.
 
 There have been law suits involving technology that curl provides. One such

project/bugs.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Any problem can be considered a bug. A weirdly phrased wording in the manual
 that prevents you from understanding something is a bug. A surprising side
 effect of combining multiple options can be a bug—or perhaps it should be
 better documented? Perhaps the option does not do at all what you expected it
-to? That's a problem and we should fix it.
+to? That is a problem and we should fix it.
 
 ### Problems must be known to get fixed
 

project/comm.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ It is important to realize that we are all jointly taking care of the project,
 we fix problems and we add features. Sometimes a regular contributor grows
 bored and fades away, sometimes a new eager contributor steps out from the
 shadows and starts helping out more. To keep this ship going forward as well
-as possible, it is important that we maintain open discussions and that's one
+as possible, it is important that we maintain open discussions and that is one
 of the reasons why we frown upon users who take discussions privately or try
 to e-mail individual team members about development issues, questions,
 debugging or whatever.

project/does.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ anything else than that it would output data on stdout, to the terminal, by
 default. The "everything is a pipe" mantra of standard Unix philosophy was
 something Daniel believed in. curl is like 'cat' or one of the other Unix tools;
 it sends data to stdout to make it easy to chain together with other tools to do
-what you want. That's also why virtually all curl options that allow reading from
+what you want. That is also why virtually all curl options that allow reading from
 a file or writing to a file, also have the ability to select doing it to stdout
 or from stdin.
 

project/users.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ the Internet, the occasional "about box" or license agreement mentioning curl
 or that authors ask for help and tell us about their use.
 
 The curl license says users need to repeat it somewhere, like in the
-documentation, but that's not easy for us to find in many cases and it's also
+documentation, but that is not easy for us to find in many cases and it's also
 not easy for us to do anything about should they decide not to follow the
 small license requirement.
 

usingcurl/connections/name.md

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ redirects or if you just want to have your command line work with multiple
 URLs.
 
 `--resolve` inserts the address into curl's DNS cache, so it will effectively
-make curl believe that's the address it got when it resolved the name.
+make curl believe that is the address it got when it resolved the name.
 
 When talking HTTPS, this will send SNI for the name in the URL and curl will
 verify the server's response to make sure it serves for the name in the URL.

usingcurl/proxies/captive.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Captive portals
 
-These are not proxies but they're blocking the way between you and the server
+These are not proxies but they are blocking the way between you and the server
 you want to access.
 
 A "captive portal" is one of these systems that are popular to use in hotels,

usingcurl/proxies/http.md

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ What you can do instead then, is to "tunnel through" the HTTP proxy!
 ## HTTP proxy tunneling
 
 Most HTTP proxies allow clients to "tunnel through" it to a server on the other
-side. That's exactly what's done every time you use HTTPS through the HTTP
+side. That is exactly what's done every time you use HTTPS through the HTTP
 proxy.
 
 You tunnel through an HTTP proxy with curl using `-p` or `--proxytunnel`.

usingcurl/returns.md

@@ -103,14 +103,14 @@ A basic Unix shell script could look like something like this:
     passive mode. You might be able to work-around this problem by using PORT
     instead, with the `--ftp-port` option.
 
- 15. FTP can't get host. Couldn't use the host IP address we got in the
+ 15. FTP cannot get host. Couldn't use the host IP address we got in the
     227-line. This is most likely an internal error.
 
  16. HTTP/2 error. A problem was detected in the HTTP2 framing layer. This is
     somewhat generic and can be one out of several problems, see the error
     message for details.
 
- 17. FTP couldn't set binary. Couldn't change transfer method to binary. This
+ 17. FTP could not set binary. Couldn't change transfer method to binary. This
     server is broken. curl needs to set the transfer to the correct mode
     before it is started as otherwise the transfer cannot work.
 
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ A basic Unix shell script could look like something like this:
     that curl got fewer bytes than advertised or that it got more. curl itself
     cannot know which number that is wrong or which is correct. If any.
 
- 19. FTP couldn't download/access the given file. The RETR (or similar)
+ 19. FTP could not download/access the given file. The RETR (or similar)
     command failed. curl got an error from the server when trying to download
     the file.
 
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ A basic Unix shell script could look like something like this:
     to curl. See also the [FTP uses two connections](ftp-twoconnections.md)
     section.
 
- 31. FTP couldn't use REST. The REST command failed. This command is used for
+ 31. FTP could not use REST. The REST command failed. This command is used for
     resumed FTP transfers. curl needs to issue the REST command to do range or
     resumed transfers. The server is broken, try the same operation without
     range/resume as a crude work-around.

usingcurl/tftp.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ You ask curl to use a different size than the default with
 
     curl --tftp-blksize 8192 tftp://localserver/file
 
-It has been shown that there are server implementations that don't handle option
+It has been shown that there are server implementations that do not handle option
 negotiation at all, so curl also has the ability to completely switch off all
 attempts of setting options. If you are in the unfortunate of working with
 such a server, use the flag like this:

usingcurl/version.md

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ and it can also show a secondary "Patch date" if it has been updated somehow
 after it was originally released.
 
 This says `[unreleased]` if curl was built another way than from a release
-tarball, and as you can see above that's how Microsoft did it for Windows 10
+tarball, and as you can see above that is how Microsoft did it for Windows 10
 and the curl project does not recommend it.
 
 ## Line 3: Protocols