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a better HTTP client is one that does exactly what you want, nothing more and nothing less.
Still no name or this mysterious better client. And what happens when I need something more, or something else? I need to find a different "better client"?
But where's your Commodore 64, Bagder? We know it's hiding somewhere.
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$299 for a two PC, single monitor kvm? Expensive.
Actually not - it's capable of 120hz @ 4k. Your typical chinesium $49 amazon KVM won't do that.
Hmmmm :).
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> It's just one HTTP client. curl supports 28 transfer protocols [1] > There are better ones. curl has 60 language bindings, runs on 89 operating systems across 24 CPU architectures [1] So what is that mythical better client (that only does HTTP)? [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/11/25/89-operating-systems
a better HTTP client is one that does exactly what you want, nothing more and nothing less.
cURL isn't a HTTP client.
It's a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs :-)
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Yes. By curl. Every time comments like yours come up I'm just thinking "yeah, the fucker have no idea how much handling of edge cases comes up with libs like that"
I have implemented many networking applications from Ethernet to application protocols. I am also particularly aware of how HTTP and all the related stack works. So your thinking appears to be inaccurate.
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Still no name or this mysterious better client. And what happens when I need something more, or something else? I need to find a different "better client"?
I still type wget when trying to download stuff... not sure if better, except for default behavior.