cURL is nice because it's an HTTP request tool that's got about three decades of all the minutia built into it. It's got a CLI and a library, and it runs on eve

cURL is nice because it's an HTTP request tool that's got about three decades of all the minutia built into it. It's got a CLI and a library, and it runs on every operating system you might develop for. I think a big difference is that the author is pretty darn proud of cURL and brags about it often, and that curl's license is more permissive than wget's GPL.