4 ms·Most people aren't writing HTTP requests by hand in a text editor.by avolcano 13y agoMost people aren't writing HTTP requests by hand in a text editor.jdp 13y agoNo, but a lot of people are writing them in telnet prompts and through netcat pipes.nitrogen 13y agoCurl and wget are nearly as ubiquitous as netcat.jdp 13y agoThe older, HTTP/1.X compatible versions maybe. What happens after the web upgrades to 2.0? How long until compatible tools make it to default installs? Even now, OSX doesn't ship with wget.lazyloop 13y agoBut they watch, capture and post them to mailing lists and stack overflow.