It's from an haproxy configuration file This unfamiliarity is why I try to use programs that more HN readers are familiar with, like curl or wget, in HN exampl

It's from an haproxy configuration file This unfamiliarity is why I try to use programs that more HN readers are familiar with, like curl or wget, in HN examples. But I find those programs awkward to use. The examples may contain mistakes. I don't use those programs in real life For making HTTP requests I use own HTTP generators, TCP clients, and local forward proxies Given the options (a) run a graphical web browser and enable Javascript to solve an archive.today CAPTCHA that contains some fetch() to DDoS a blogger or (b) add a single line to a configuration file and use whatever client I want, no Javascript required, I choose (b)