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Judging from the respect in all the comments, it looks like a very well deserved honour. Congratulations and thanks for your work! I will appreciate even more after my reading.
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That story went by me. Was there a rationale for banning him?
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/ I can't see any follow-up on why he was denied entry though.
I will make a renewed attempt to travel to the US at a later time. Hopefully it was just some mess-up, a human error or whatever.
/ Daniel
Did not know much about curl until I saw this. I have seen a few curl something.sh | sh instructions online that I always skip and wget the script for inspection. I guess it took a prestigious swedish award to the author to add it to my afternoon reading :-) Judging from the respect in all the comments, it looks like a very well deserved honour. Congratulations and thanks for your work! I will appreciate even more af…
Congratulations to author for the prize! And NZ is a great destination, hope they enjoy it. :)
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https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/ I can't see any follow-up on why he was denied entry though.
We were never able to get any answers as to why I was denied - in spite of some real efforts in finding out. It will remain an unanswered mystery. I will make a renewed attempt to travel to the US at a later time. Hopefully it was just some mess-up, a human error or whatever. / Daniel
Someone in US Immigration Googled 'curl' with your name and found a bunch of malware hits.
Did not know much about curl until I saw this. I have seen a few curl something.sh | sh instructions online that I always skip and wget the script for inspection. I guess it took a prestigious swedish award to the author to add it to my afternoon reading :-) Judging from the respect in all the comments, it looks like a very well deserved honour. Congratulations and thanks for your work! I will appreciate even more af…
From my experience both wget and curl deserve respect. Both are fantastic tools, similar in some ways but covering much ground in other directions. I find wget ideal as a spider (checking broken linnks, making local backups of webpages and similar) while curl is much easier to use for quick inspection of web pages (including headers and https certificates). Congratulations to author for the prize! And NZ is a great d…
Wget is first and foremost aimed at being a file downloader/spider. If used with no switches it will grab the first file behind the url and save it locally.
Curl on the other hand it more of a HTTP client lib with a cli interface. Unless fed a specific switch, it will send the file behind the url to stdout. Meaning that it is more at home at one end of a pipe.
If I remember correctly, Daniel has been working on curl for at least 2 hours a day for ~20 years. I hope he and his family have a well deserved vacation. Thanks Daniel for your hard work.
Agreed. The prize money is 250k SEK ($30k). That should buy a pretty sleek vacation. Even if the prize money is taxed (I'm unsure of that. My thinking is it counts sort of as a scholarship or grant, tax-wise, and should thus be exempt of taxation in this case.).
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Implementing a HTTP client might seem trivial, but it's actually hard, and it's getting more and more difficult.
Full disclosure: I'm kiwi, so might be somewhat biased ;-)