Curl, 17 years old today
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Curl, 17 years old today
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Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#2I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#3I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
Those were the early days of HTTP, so no, people didn't really get a lot of HTTP "manually" like that. We used other existing tools to get gopher and ftp though.
When I started my work on httpget in 1996, I didn't know about wget and I didn't become aware of it until several years later....
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#4I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
How long have GET/POST commands been around? Probably not as long, but just curious.
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#5> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already.
This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
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#7> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already. This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
If you count a user as a system which has curl installed, and has run it at some point, is curl on iOS and Android? If so, you will be in that ball park I imagine.
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#8I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
How long have GET/POST commands been around? Probably not as long, but just curious.
I believe they originally come from the libwww-perl project? According to wikipedia it was first released with perl 4.0036, which was in Februrary 1993, but I can't find out if it included GET and HEAD etc already then...
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#9I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
How long have GET/POST commands been around? Probably not as long, but just curious.
RFC 1945 dated may 1996 mentions GET and POST methods
http://www.rfc-base.org/txt/rfc-1945.txt
HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This specification reflects common usage of the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.0".
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#10> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already. This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
It all depends on how you count and what a "user" is of course, but this little list helps to give a picture: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html