curl

“CLI tools included with macOS 27.2 and Xcode use still contains the compromised eMudhra certificates (curl, git, etc.)”

“their superficial overlap in ability to download a single file from an HTTP server does not make them "trivially replaceable" with each other”

“At least with curl you know that you're getting the supply chain put together by the software author”

“Agents love standing on the shoulders of good crystalized cognition (grep, curl etc)”

“Complex agent-system integration problems are usually better solved with just AI agent + curl + SKILL.md.”

“It would seem that curl + jq represents most of the solution these days.”

“curl is certainly a much more difficult problem to solve well, and does so without 30 million issues”

“curl is more limited than the programs I use to generate HTTP, it's slower”

“Curl is the ideal tool since you don't have to share logs and neither prove your application behaviour.”

“curl is an excellent, very popular command on which all major coding models are well trained on.”

“I use this in all the various little bash scripts I have running via timers.”

“There are some things curl cannot do, even though it has too many options”

“curl can do very detailed timing [1] for what it's worth and it can also do this using a proxy”

“Curl takes care of that (and a host of other annoying stuff) for you.”

“With more advance notice, someone could have found resources to fork curl with different vulnerability management expectations”

“It exchanges packets with the internet and then outputs a safely sanitized byte stream.”

“I'm not sure it's be reasonable to leave an actively exploited critical bug until August.”

“Why would you imagine they have any clue about the area of effect if they ignore the report?”

“No, that is the point, they are not going to accept your vuln report. They are taking a holiday.”

“curl is mature enough that the chance of an impactful bug is basically zero”

“cURL also offers paid support and also paid access to the rock-solid (LTS) version, with guaranteed response times”

“Two of the most reliable software ever to exist, curl and SQLite, are C/C++”

“it's an enormously complex and capable tool. Support for tons of protocols, certs, and much more.”

“curl may just happen to be a well-hardened tool that doesn't have too many security vulnerabilities”

“curl HAS had security, protocol and language experts poking at it for years”

“it shows what is achievable if there is a high bar for quality in every single line of code”

“Curl and SQLite are my favourite examples of properly engineered, rigourously tested _anything_.”

“a simple script (curl calling steam API and sending a notification if the price is set) + cron handle the job perfectly”

“the curl project receives tonnes of issues and support requests from people who run `curl` in PowerShell”

“the curl project receives tonnes of issues and support requests from people who run curl in PowerShell”

“providing a few curl + jq oneliners to interact with a REST API works great in my experience”

“Ended up just wrapping curl with the right User-Agent and it worked without needing a full browser.”

“But this is no different to using an API key with access controls and curl and you get the same thing.”

“The ones that survive decades (Make, grep, curl) do one thing and compose well”

“I find myself using curl telnet://server:port too often these days because telnet and nc don’t get installed.”

“CLIs, cURL, and other shell tools are composable and discoverable.”

“for a project that has a quite good reputation, I think the burden of proof is on you”

“if any program has been the standard for doing this kind of thing for a long time it's curl”

“Given curl, jq, and awk, you can create a quick MVP client for almost any api”

“What does software look like when it's developed out of passion purely for the improvement to the world? Curl, linux, git.”