"Curl" wants to connect to www.l.google.com

[macswitcha2]

recently I've been getting alerts of "curl" trying to connect to www.l.google.com on TCP port 80.

I have been denying connection. What service is this?

 

[GGJstudios]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/using_cURL.html

cURL is a command-line application for performing requests using a variety of protocols including HTTP. cURL is often used by developers to test Google Data services, as it supports the HTTP functionality required to interact with the APIs at a low level.

 

[macswitcha2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/using_cURL.html

Thanks! The question is, should I forever deny this service? What good is it for me?

 

[Phych]

If you have Prey Project installed on your system, you'll want to open up access to cURL because that's how it talks to the servers.