NScurl plug-in
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Description
NScurl is an NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) plugin with advanced HTTP/HTTPS capabilities.
It’s implemented on top of libcurl with OpenSSL as SSL backend.
This plugin is included in my unofficial NSIS builds.
Features
- Modern: supports modern SSL protocols and cyphers including HTTPS/2, TLS1.3, etc.
- Compatible: works well on Windows NT4, Windows 10 and everything in between
- Multi-threaded: download/upload multiple files in parallel
- Asynchronous: start multiple background transfers, check on them later
- Insistent: multiple attempts to connect and resume interrupted transfers
- NSIS aware: download files at any installation stage (from
.onInit
, fromSections
, from custom pages, silent installers, etc) - Verbose: plenty of useful information is available for querying (transfer size, speed, HTTP status, HTTP headers, etc)
- Supports HTTP and TLS authentication
- Supports all relevant HTTP methods (GET, POST, HEAD, etc)
- Supports DNS-over-HTTPS name resolution
- Supports custom HTTP headers and data
- Supports proxy servers (both authenticated and open)
- Supports files larger than 4GB
- Can download remote content to RAM instead of a file
- Works well in 64-bit NSIS builds
- A lot more… Check out the included documentation
Basic usage
- Check out the Getting Started wiki page
- Quick transfer:
NScurl::http GET "http://live.sysinternals.com/Files/SysinternalsSuite.zip" "$TEMP\SysinternalsSuite.zip" /CANCEL /RESUME /END Pop $0 ; Status text ("OK" for success)
- Quick transfer (custom GET parameters + custom request headers):
NScurl::http GET "https://httpbin.org/get?param1=value1¶m2=value2" "$TEMP\httpbin_get.json" /HEADER "Header1: Value1" /HEADER "Header2: Value2" /END Pop $0
- POST a .json file
NScurl::http POST "https://httpbin.org/post" MEMORY /HEADER "Content-Type: application/json" /DATA '{ "number_of_the_beast" : 666 }' /END Pop $0
- POST a .json file (as MIME multi-part form)
NScurl::http POST "https://httpbin.org/post" Memory /POST "User" "My user name" /POST "Password" "My password" /POST FILENAME=maiden.json TYPE=application/json "Details" '{ "number_of_the_beast" : 666 }' /END Pop $0
- More complex examples in the documentation
Licenses
Project | License |
---|---|
This project itself | |
libcurl | MIT/X inspired |
OpenSSL | Dual License |
nghttp2 | MIT |
zlib | zlib |