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> HTTP PUT
wget --method=PUT --body-data=
> proxies ... HTTPS
wget --use-proxy=on --https_proxy=https://example.com
Curl consistently has more options and flexibility, but there's several things on the right side of the venn diagram where wget does have some capability.
I would also add at least "sane default options", "continues downloads" and "retries on error" to the Wget column. I recently had to write a script that downloads a very large file over a somewhat unreliable connection. The common wisdom among the engineers is that you need to use Wget for this job. I tried using curl but out of the box it could not resume or retry the download. I would have to study the manual and s…
I would also add at least "sane default options", "continues downloads" and "retries on error" to the Wget column. I recently had to write a script that downloads a very large file over a somewhat unreliable connection. The common wisdom among the engineers is that you need to use Wget for this job. I tried using curl but out of the box it could not resume or retry the download. I would have to study the manual and s…
With the modern web, sometimes it's easier to use a tool like Puppeteer from a custom script. Especially if the sites you're interacting with are using a lot of JS.
It's as if he treats curl as his mark on the world of IT.
I would also add at least "sane default options", "continues downloads" and "retries on error" to the Wget column. I recently had to write a script that downloads a very large file over a somewhat unreliable connection. The common wisdom among the engineers is that you need to use Wget for this job. I tried using curl but out of the box it could not resume or retry the download. I would have to study the manual and s…
Both tools have their use-cases. I think with the advent of LLMs like ChatGPT it has also become a lot easier to get the proper command line incantation for whatever tool you're using. Even if you've read the manual previously, it's easy to forget the exact flags you want to use, and validating the generated command line is usually less effort than having to build it up yourself from scratch by reading the manual. Wi…
For me the killer feature of wget is that by default it downloads a file with a name derived from the url. You do: wget url://to/file.htm and a file named "file.htm" appears in your cwd. Using curl, you would have to do curl url://to/file.htm > file.htm or some other, less ergonomical, incantation.
curl -O https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-O
I would also add at least "sane default options", "continues downloads" and "retries on error" to the Wget column. I recently had to write a script that downloads a very large file over a somewhat unreliable connection. The common wisdom among the engineers is that you need to use Wget for this job. I tried using curl but out of the box it could not resume or retry the download. I would have to study the manual and s…