curl is just awesome, thanks so much to the author and all maintainers over the years! It's still my go to application for testing and debugging HTTP requests.
Curl, 17 years old today
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Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#32And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Curl just works.
> And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Well I had to check, but this is not true at all: $ nc -l -p 9999 GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.15 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Host: localhost:9999 Connection: Keep-Alive Also wget can recursively mirror webpages and there are nice options to carefully select contents you want to download. It's quite dated tho…
I love aria2c
I use it all the time even as the down loader for ArchLinux's pacman (package manager).
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#33Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer, was also on the packet pusher podcast recently, talking about HTTP/2 - http://packetpushers.net/show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-netw...
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#35I love curl so much. I just learned that you can 'copy to curl command' from the chrome inspector's network panel by right clicking on any request!! I want to make a library that reads the curl command (and maybe request syntax?) and outputs a function that will do that command.
Similarly you can right-click and "Copy as cURL" from the Network pane of Firefox's web developer tools.
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#36Happy bday!
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#37And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Curl just works.
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#38Can I just say thank you for all those hours of hard work the maintainers have put in over the years?
Yes, you can! Here's the link:
Re: Curl, 17 years old today
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
`lynx -dump` was a very useful tool.
I still can't stop myself typing `lynx -mime_header` to see server headers!
why not
lynx -head -dump http://httpbin.org
On another note: Thanks for curl - it's always high up in my charts somehow. Right now #2 in
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#40> "If it doesn't load through curl, it's broken." --someone So, so true. Thanks, curl.
That's pretty much my own test for a Web based API - if I can drive it from the command line using curl then great, if I can't then it's broken.