Show HN: Curl https://ec2.shop

#1

Post by kureikain » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

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#2

Post by kureikain » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 9:39 AM UTC

From time to time, I want a quick tool to help me compare EC2 instances price. https://ec2instances.info/ works great but it's somewhat slow and didn't have a way to just `curl` from terminal.

So I develop this small tool which you can do thing like

    curl https://ec2.shop
    curl https://ec2.shop?region=us-west-2&filter=t2,m4

Re: Show HN: Curl https://ec2.shop

#3

Post by tinhspace » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 9:57 AM UTC

kureikain wrote: post #2

From time to time, I want a quick tool to help me compare EC2 instances price. https://ec2instances.info/ works great but it's somewhat slow and didn't have a way to just `curl` from terminal. So I develop this small tool which you can do thing like curl https://ec2.shop curl https://ec2.shop?region=us-west-2&filter=t2,m4

Thank you so much. Going to try this one, very useful tool.

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#4

Post by echeese » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:05 AM UTC

The prices column is sorted lexicographically, instead of numeric, i.e. 1, 10, 2

Re: Show HN: Curl https://ec2.shop

#5

Post by YoavR7 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:22 AM UTC

Cool! You should probably add http support and not only https. Writing `curl ec2.shop` is easier than `curl https://ec2.shop`

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#6

Post by m00dy » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:24 AM UTC

now curl is the new black ? :) This is not my first time that I see curl based services.

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#7

Post by saurik » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:24 AM UTC

YoavR7 wrote: post #5

Cool! You should probably add http support and not only https. Writing `curl ec2.shop` is easier than `curl https://ec2.shop`

For HTTPS to truly be meaningful we need to stop supporting HTTP as an on-ramp, to prevent people from just hijacking that initial unencrypted connection and sending anything they want.

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#8

Post by zkirill » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC

Super! It would be great to see price per month as well.

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#9

Post by Znafon » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

saurik wrote: post #7

YoavR7 wrote: post #5

Cool! You should probably add http support and not only https. Writing `curl ec2.shop` is easier than `curl https://ec2.shop`

For HTTPS to truly be meaningful we need to stop supporting HTTP as an on-ramp, to prevent people from just hijacking that initial unencrypted connection and sending anything they want.

If you MITM and the user agent send an HTTP request for ec2.shop it does not matter whether the webserver supports HTTP or not, you can send a fake HTTP response either way.

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#10

Post by mschuster91 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 11:35 AM UTC

saurik wrote: post #7

YoavR7 wrote: post #5

Cool! You should probably add http support and not only https. Writing `curl ec2.shop` is easier than `curl https://ec2.shop`

For HTTPS to truly be meaningful we need to stop supporting HTTP as an on-ramp, to prevent people from just hijacking that initial unencrypted connection and sending anything they want.

Anyone who likes to prevent that can submit their site to the HSTS preload list. Chrome, Firefox and Edge use a shared one, the only two relevant other agents (Safari and curl) unfortunately don't though.