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Why do people like cURL? I've regularly found it to have stupid defaults compared to wget. Is it because it's default on Mac and wget isn't?
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
Why do people like cURL? I've regularly found it to have stupid defaults compared to wget. Is it because it's default on Mac and wget isn't?
- eze 14y agoAs I tend to use in very simple situations, I happen to like curl's default use of stdout. Not a very compelling reason, I know.
- djtriptych 14y agocURL is worth learning in my experience because it is bulletproof, ubiquitous, fast, highly-configurable, and comprehensive. No other option listed in here are all of those things, though they are all easier to use. But start talking about SOCKS5 proxies or FTPS and all of a sudden you have to start monkey patching your (pretty) tool or, you know, learning curl. Seriously how often are you guys performing PUTs and DELETEs manually from the command line? `man` up and write a wrapper.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI didn't realize there was such a discrepency in proxy functionality, that's exactly what I was looking for.