Magnus Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish developer and recipient of the 2017 Polhem Prize[4][5] for his work on cURL.

Daniel Stenberg
Self-portrait of Daniel Stenberg in 2015.
Daniel Stenberg in 2015
Born (1970-11-23) November 23, 1970 (age 53)[1]
Other namesbagder[2][3]
OccupationComputer Scientist/Programmer
Notable workcURL
Websitedaniel.haxx.se

He was born and raised in Huddinge, a suburb south of Sweden's capital Stockholm. He created a utility which, after various name and license changes, became known as cURL and is currently available under the cURL License (based on the MIT License.[6])

From 2013 to 2018, he worked for Mozilla.[7] In February 2019, Daniel joined wolfSSL[8] to offer commercial support for cURL and to work on cURL as full-time as possible.[9] He is active in the IETF, a member of the working groups for HTTP/2 and QUIC,[10] and contributed to several RFCs.[11]

In April 2023, he became a member of the Polhemsrådet, the Polhem Prize's committee.[12]

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References

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  1. ^ "Travel not authorized" (PNG). daniel.haxx.se. 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  2. ^ "@bagder" on Twitter
  3. ^ Daniel Stenberg, Henrik Sandklef, Magnus Hagander, and Johan Thelin (9 March 2023). "S01E01 - EU Cyber Resilience Act". fossified.com (Podcast). Fossified. Event occurs at 00:53. Retrieved 3 June 2023.{{cite podcast}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "My night at the museum | daniel.haxx.se". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  5. ^ "Polhemspriset 2017 | daniel.haxx.se". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  6. ^ "A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, TFTP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, RTSP and R." September 27, 2019 – via GitHub.
  7. ^ "About Daniel". daniel.haxx.se. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  8. ^ "Interview with Daniel Stenberg HTTP/3 for everyone. The next generation HTTP is coming". FOSDEM. 10 January 2020. Archived from the original on 10 January 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Daniel Stenberg, founder and Chief Architect of cURL, joins wolfSSL". Help Net Security. February 7, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  10. ^ "Daniel Stenberg - daniel.haxx.se". daniel.haxx.se. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  11. ^ "Daniel Stenberg -- Documentation". daniel.haxx.se. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  12. ^ "Polhemsradet". Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  13. ^ "Wget". Contributors. Manual. GNU.
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