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I want to make a library that reads the curl command (and maybe request syntax?) and outputs a function that will do that command.
I'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.
Basic HTTP as defined in 1992 had GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, LINK, TEXTSEARCH, CHECKIN, etc.: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods.html
More generic info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already. This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already. This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
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.
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.
And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a 'host' header. Curl just works.
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
I'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....
now days we use curl/wget for web dev it seems? probably used it for the same thing back then but I also image that lots of people just used their own ad-hoc scripts or whatever; i wish i had firsthand knowledge of that.
i used wget to download copies of websites when i found one that was mostly documents/images rather than webapps.