I already explained, what's better is what fits your needs exactly. Without knowing your requirements it would be difficult to say. Say for example your main

I already explained, what's better is what fits your needs exactly. Without knowing your requirements it would be difficult to say. Say for example your main concern is latency, you only need support for MTU-sized payloads, you want ro guarantee that the TCP connection is always established ahead of time and your requests always follow the same pattern with a few bytes to tweak. You can easily write something that can do those things much better than curl in a couple of hours.