Curl, 17 years old today

&gt; &quot;If it doesn&#x27;t load through curl, it&#x27;s broken.&quot; --someone<p>So, so true. Thanks, curl.

I love curl so much. I just learned that you can &#x27;copy to curl command&#x27; from the chrome inspector&#x27;s network panel by right clicking on any request!!<p>I want to make a library that reads the curl command (and maybe request syntax?) and outputs a function that will do that command.

Can I just say thank you for all those hours of hard work the maintainers have put in over the years?

<p><pre><code> alias wget=&#x27;echo &quot;How dare you.&quot; &amp;&amp; curl -O&#x27; brew rm wget </code></pre> Happy birthday.

I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?

It&#x27;s slightly weird to me that I am older than Curl and Wget. They always seemed like Unix Monoliths to me; I had just assumed they had always existed.

Curl is great, but I also recently came across HTTPie (<a href="https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jakubroztocil&#x2F;httpie</a>) which has some nice features for playing around with HTTP APIs (JSON formatting, syntax highlighting, etc)

I abuse curl most weeks. How many more web apps would fail at a header only request, if not for prodding from a curl user.

Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer, was also on the packet pusher podcast recently, talking about HTTP&#x2F;2 - <a href="http://packetpushers.net/show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-network-thing-happening-on-the-internet-today-repost/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;packetpushers.net&#x2F;show-224-http2-its-the-biggest-netw...</a>

I was wgetting all my http requests until about 2 years ago. Curl&#x27;s undeniable coolness won me over after 15 years. Now I practically live in curl when I&#x27;m setting up webservices, and libcurl for PHP does something on nearly every page request I have.<p>For PHP people, curl_multi_exec is the new event loop.

&gt; Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already.<p>This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?

curl is just awesome, thanks so much to the author and all maintainers over the years! It&#x27;s still my go to application for testing and debugging HTTP requests.

Happy bday!

cUrl, I am as old as you &lt;3

Curl is pretty great to use, but be warned it has old smelly code and is probably full of security issues. I wouldn&#x27;t use it for anything too critical.

And still better than wget, which only does http 1.0 and this has problems due to lacking a &#x27;host&#x27; header. Curl just works.