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So what? What if he were to use curl or wget? What then?
by downer66 11y ago
So what? What if he were to use curl or wget? What then?
- striking 11y agoI don't believe anyone seriously uses curl or wget to browse the internet outside of edge cases. If he really wants to read YouTube comments, why not open a separate browser for YouTube? Why not make your own CLI interface that pretends to be the "extraload"ing code? I think it's perfectly fine that people have to actively exert effort to stay on a previous browser. Because those people are the reason IE8 and IE7 and IE6 were issues for the longest time. If you don't like the everchanging web and the fact that it's built on crappy standards, then build your own thing. (This is a point I fully agree with: the web is an awful application platform as it is now.) But why would you make the experience more difficult for everyone else?
- smacktoward 11y agoEdge cases like Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html): > I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me.
- eeZi 11y agoEven wget can (and does) have critical vulnerabilities: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/10/28/r7-2014-15-gnu-wget-ftp-symlink-arbitrary-filesystem-access https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/...