What always bugged me is that curl doesn't follow redirects by default. Instead you have to pass it the -L option. curl always made more sense to me as a progra

What always bugged me is that curl doesn't follow redirects by default. Instead you have to pass it the -L option. curl always made more sense to me as a programmer's tool. It seems to be made for those who want a tool that you have to predictably guide step-by-step rather than something that tries to be smart and uses sane defaults. That's not to say it doesn't have it's uses though.