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I never did really figure out why curl became a thing when we’d been wget to do that since 2001.
by taneq 2y ago
I never did really figure out why curl became a thing when we’d been wget to do that since 2001.
- senko 2y agoBecause MacOS included curl because wget is GPL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/25/curls-first-twenty-years-on-the-mac/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/25/curls-first-twenty-ye...
- yetihehe 2y agoBecause you could use curl as a library in PHP and some other languages.
- bityard 2y agoThey're actually very different tools: wget is mostly useful only for downloading of web resources, curl is for making arbitrary requests.