Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
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Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#2Does this do anything curl can’t or are we just enthralled with the tininess?
Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#3Does this do anything curl can’t or are we just enthralled with the tininess?
Actually hfile has nothing new, So the basic philosophy here is a small binary.
Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#4I did a https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/
Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#5I did a https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/
This is of course great, and very creative, but why not use an HTTP proxy if this TLS is still unprotected?
Did I misunderstand something?
Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#6I did a https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/
This is of course great, and very creative, but why not use an HTTP proxy if this TLS is still unprotected? Did I misunderstand something?
Many servers support TLS only, so implementing the client side of TLS was a matter of compatibility, not security. If external dependencies are allowed then why not just use libcurl?
Re: Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc
#7https://gist.github.com/seanwevans/3e9ba17431d5464092d0fb839...
this compiles to 10kb on my machine with no golfing. it literally just supports grabbing whatever is at the url given (http 1.0)