That is true, curl has some additional protocol features and then of course it being a standard part of most *nix OSes makes it easy to understand why Chrome an

That is true, curl has some additional protocol features and then of course it being a standard part of most *nix OSes makes it easy to understand why Chrome and Firefox both have the copy as curl option. I still use curl regularly but for any pure http(s) stuff I use httpie because of its improved user experience.