How to use Curl in javascript

Question

I am writing a chrome extension and I want to use Curl to get me the download links of the gmail attachments. How should i do it? I am new to curl and i don't know how would i able to use the curl library in javascript ?

Answer 1

You can't use cURL directly in Javascript. You can do AJAX though. So one solution would be to setup a php script somewhere that you can use for getting links from gmail.

EDIT: There is an implementation of cURL in javascript here. Check it out.