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Us Rubyists are used to using curl for testing our REST apps. What additional help/insight can netcat provide when building REST apps? Or Rails apps in general?
by ruby_roo 18y ago
Us Rubyists are used to using curl for testing our REST apps. What additional help/insight can netcat provide when building REST apps? Or Rails apps in general? Is there any?
- tlrobinson 18y agocurl is higher level. It implements a number of protocols like HTTP. nc is basically raw sockets. You can listen on a port with curl like you can with nc.
- tlrobinson 18y ago"can't listen on a port with curl" Sorry, waited too long to edit.