Curl has been a life safer for me when I had to interact with a legacy third party server. The Python request model was regularly hanging when making requests t

Curl has been a life safer for me when I had to interact with a legacy third party server. The Python request model was regularly hanging when making requests to this server, whereas I never observed these issues with curl. Curl appears to be better at dealing with such legacy edge cases as it has been around for more than two decades.