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"But this prize might contribute to my family understanding that I do something of value while they sleep."[0]
Spoken by a person who has created something that has probably been used by hundreds of millions of people. Obviously the quote is very tounge in cheek, but still.
[0] http://www.polhemspriset.se/aktuellt/arets-polhemspris-till-...
To get an idea what it's like developing software that is used by more than a billion people, look at this classic blog post from Daniel [1].
[0] http://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/ [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
My guess is that it's similar to the reason curl (and wget) sometimes get identified as malware by virus checkers. Someone in US Immigration Googled 'curl' with your name and found a bunch of malware hits.
I guess it's possible he was flagged by someone reviewing malware. Would malware creators give any credits?
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…
That's the `| sh` that you don't like though, not the `curl something.sh`...
Let's also not forget the anonymous authors of Wget - a venerable tool that eventually lost the battle with curl
Curl is in everything. And you can tell, if you find the license. In my 2014 Chevy Cruze, if you look in the owner's manual, there is the curl license, in all its glory. I've used it many times myself, and it's always proven itself to be a great piece of software.
Implementing a HTTP client might seem trivial, but it's actually hard, and it's getting more and more difficult.
"[curl] is a free client-side URL transfer library, supporting cookies, DICT, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP (with HTTP/2 support), HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, HTTP proxy tunneling, HTTPS, IMAP, Kerberos, LDAP, POP3, RTSP, SCP, and SMTP. The library supports the file URI scheme, SFTP, Telnet, TFTP, file transfer resume, FTP uploading, HTTP form-based upload, HTTPS certificates, LDAPS, proxies, and user-plus-password authentication."