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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
(This is a repost of a stackoverflow answer I once wrote on this topic. Slightly edited. Copied here to make sure I own and store my own content properly.) curl knows the HTTP method You normally use curl without explicitly saying which request method to use. If you just pass in a HTTP URL like … Continue reading curl -G vs curl -X GET →
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
I’ve worked hard on making the presentation I ended up calling libcurl under the hood. A part of that presentation is spent on explaining the main libcurl transfer state machine and here I’ll try to document some of what, in a written form.
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
curl up 2021 happened today. We had five presentations done, all prerecorded and made available before the event. At the Sunday afternoon we gathered to discuss the presentations and everything around those topics. The presentations The state of curl
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
“Memes” or other fun images involving curl. Please send or direct me to other ones you think belong in this collection! Kept here solely to boost my ego. All modern digital infrastructure This is the famous xkcd strip number 2347, modified to say
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
In the curl project we make great efforts to store a lot of meta data about each and every vulnerability that we have fixed over the years – and curl is over 23 years old. This data set includes CVE id, first vulnerable version, last vulnerable
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
tldr: starting now, you need to select which TLS to use when you run curl’s configure script. How it started In June 1998, three months after the first release of curl, we added support for HTTPS. We decided that we would use an external library for this purpose – for providing SSL support – and … Continue reading Please select your TLS →
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
You know that question you can get asked casually by a person you’ve never met before or even by someone you’ve known for a long time but haven’t really talked to about this before. Perhaps at a social event. Perhaps at a family dinner. – So what do you do? The implication is of course … Continue reading “So what exactly is curl?” →
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
Friends of mine know that I’ve tried for a long time to get confirmation that curl is used in space. We’ve believed it to be likely but I’ve wanted to get a clear confirmation that this is indeed the fact. Today GitHub posted their article about open source in the Mars mission, and they now … Continue reading Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor →
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Posted
almost 3 years
ago
by
Daniel Stenberg
Everyone knows that on most systems you can specify IPv4 addresses just 4 decimal numbers separated with periods (dots). Example: 192.168.0.1 Useful when you for example want to ping your local wifi router and similar. “ping 192.168.0.1” Other bases
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almost 3 years
ago
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Daniel Stenberg
I’m happy to once again present a new curl release to the world. This time we decided to cut the release cycle short and do a quick patch release only two weeks since the previous release. The primary reason was the rather annoying and embarrassing
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