I could write a simplified curl in a week-end, I could even write an HTTP server in the same week-end. The problem, they will only work together, no https of course, that "s" is really annoying. And even that is not as straightforward as one might think. I did it it C, Unix, TCP sockets, nothing unusual, but when you start putting significant load, you start getting errors left and right and you have to handle them p…
With C and something like libev or won’t have issues with load before you have issues with weird http stuff that works for other clients or servers. I just had to modify my squid config to allow airflow Python to to a GET with a four length body: null (and no url-form-encoded content type).