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Curl, 17 years old today

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Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by laurent123456 »

xrstf wrote: post #28

> "If it doesn't load through curl, it's broken." --someone So, so true. Thanks, curl.

Curl is great and all but I don't think this quote makes much sense. Are there examples of services that would, for example, load in a browser but not through curl? I'd think it's rather the opposite since you can through pretty much anything at curl and it will work.

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by cmg »

laurent123456 wrote: post #51
xrstf wrote: post #28

> "If it doesn't load through curl, it's broken." --someone So, so true. Thanks, curl.

Curl is great and all but I don't think this quote makes much sense. Are there examples of services that would, for example, load in a browser but not through curl? I'd think it's rather the opposite since you can through pretty much anything at curl and it will work.

Anything that requires JavaScript to fetch and display content.

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by VMG »

cmg wrote: post #52
laurent123456 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curl is great and all but I don't think this quote makes much sense. Are there examples of services that would, for example, load in a browser but not through curl? I'd think it's rather the opposite since you can through pretty much anything at curl and it will work.

Anything that requires JavaScript to fetch and display content.

Well somebody tell Google and Facebook, they're probably missing out on a lot of revenue because of their broken websites.

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by gsnedders »

laumars wrote: post #22
wging wrote: post #2

I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?

Sometimes just plain telnet . It wasn't pretty, but it worked: $ telnet 80 GET / It should be noted that the above isn't a strict HTTP request header, it's missing quite a lot of detail, but it works as an example.

That's what HTTP/0.9 requests look like!

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by Piskvorrr »

CJefferson wrote: post #7
kyberias wrote: post #5

> 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.

I've seen it in various toasters, smart TVs and other embedded devices...so this is also a large "user" base.

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by Piskvorrr »

insertnickname wrote: post #37
nailer wrote: post #17

And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Curl just works.

http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

curl supports FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, POP3, IMAP, SMB/CIFS, SMTP, RTMP and RTSP. Wget only supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

Ha! Good to know :)

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by sorokod »

artpar wrote: post #23
escherize wrote: post #11

I 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.

https://shibukawa.github.io/curl_as_dsl/

That is very nice!

Re: Curl, 17 years old today

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Post by jkoudys »

I was wgetting all my http requests until about 2 years ago. Curl's undeniable coolness won me over after 15 years. Now I practically live in curl when I'm setting up webservices, and libcurl for PHP does something on nearly every page request I have.

For PHP people, curl_multi_exec is the new event loop.

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