http://dodonov.net/blog/2009/06/23/how-to-resume-a-broken-scp-transfer/
Resume scp with curl, very smart... `curl -C - --pubkey ~/.ssh/key.pub --key ~/.ssh/key sftp://user@host:/path/to/my_precious_iso.iso -o my_precious_iso.iso
https://unixbhaskar.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/measure-website-response-time-through-curl/
Handy article on how to get the response times out of curl. The key is the --write-out / -w option.
http://unixbhaskar.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/measure-website-response-time-through-curl/
Handy article explaining how to measure the (speed) time of an http request using curl. The key is -w "%{time_connect}:%{time_starttransfer}:%{time_total}\n" which outputs the times.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=250673
Very helpful thread that explains a simple one-line fix to curl problems with the PHP AWS SDK on Ubuntu 8.04 (slice1).
http://www.glype.com/
A web based proxy script powered by PHP and curl, not free, released under a proprietary license, removing the "powered by glype" link costs money. Free as in beer.