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Not to diminish the legacy of curl, but wget exists as well, right? Pretty sure a lot of machines use wget instead of curl.
by forevernoob 3y ago
Not to diminish the legacy of curl, but wget exists as well, right? Pretty sure a lot of machines use wget instead of curl.
- guenthert 3y agowget is fine for downloading stuff, but I'm not sure how common its use for IoT is. curl has two distinct advantages: - a library which can be linked to the application, i.e. one doesn't need to do the expensive fork()/exec[v[p[e]]]() dance and - documentation: most cloud services offer examples using curl for their API. It takes some additional mental work to translate those into wget syntax.
- wlonkly 3y agolibcurl is used in way, way more than just the curl(1) program.