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usingcurl/connections/README.md: rephrase without being TCP specific
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Since curl can also use UDP and QUIC.
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bagder committed Jun 14, 2024
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# Connections

Most of the protocols you use with curl speak TCP. With TCP, a client such as
curl must first figure out the IP address(es) of the host you want to
Most of the URLs you use with curl have a hostname and involve communication
over IP. curl must first figure out the IP address(es) of the host you want to
communicate with, then connect to it. "Connecting to it" means performing a
TCP protocol handshake.
protocol handshake.

For ordinary command line usage, operating on a URL, these are details which
are taken care of under the hood, and which you can mostly ignore. But at times
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