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March 20th, 2018, Daniel Stenberg notes twenty years of his flexible, multi-protocol, text-based utility, curl. It is a very common client-side file transfer utility. The associated development libraries, libcurl are a couple of years younger.
curl itself and components from libcurl are found nearly everywhere these days. Due to such widespread use, it is hard to be precise with usage numbers, but conservative estimates suggest billions of people every day are using it, though mostly under the hood several layers down inside devices they own. It is the Internet transfer utility of choice for thousands of software applications. It is found in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, settop boxes, and media players for starters.
A detailed, free-of-charge, ebook, Everything curl, covers basically everything there is to know about curl, libcurl, and the associated project.
Earlier on SN:
(Score: -1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:41PM (7 children)
https://www.howtogeek.com/340688/whats-coming-in-windows-10s-redstone-4-update-available-march-2018/ [howtogeek.com]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @12:48AM (1 child)
Tar is very much more useful than curl.
Curl is distributed in a tar file.
Any fool can hack together an HTTP client.
HTTP is trivial.
Curl is fucking unnecessary.
Fuck Curl.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @02:13AM
curl is not just for http , it talk DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP too
(Score: 5, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:17AM (3 children)
curl and tar coming to Windows 10 soon
Wrong. Only the names "curl", "wget", and "tar" are coming to the Vista series. What M$ has under those names is broken and the parts that work provide almost no functionality [github.com]. Although a trademark infringment case would be more appropriate, the author of curl has only submitted a Github pull request asking M$ to take the name 'curl' down [github.com] because they are misusing it.
Notice that there was no resolution of the problem. M$ responded not only with a bureacratic feint, it is now trying to shit in the RFC pool.
This is typical of M$ claiming to have something they don't in order to tick boxes on managers' checklists and prevent loss of Windows sales. At the same time, it is designed to give a very bad impression of the original open source tools to those same managers when the things under the name. Same shit from M$, just a different day.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @09:50AM (1 child)
I'm well aware of the curl and wget aliases; there was a SoylentNews story about them in August of 2016: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/08/23/0317252 [soylentnews.org]
Notice that it says nothing about tar. Your Github links are both dated August 2016; nothing was said there about tar. What's to be called the Spring Creators Update was made available for testing in December of 2017 and is expected to be generally available next month.
> M$ responded not only with a bureacratic feint, it is now trying to shit in the RFC pool.
You're citing a discussion on Github that began and ended in August of 2016.
Your misinformation is out of date.
(Score: 3, Informative) by canopic jug on Thursday March 22 2018, @05:36PM
Go to the github links shown above today and notice that there has been no action from M$ part to fix the problem even now in 2018. Press refresh on your browser [imgur.com] and notice that the information still stands: no action has been taken from M$ to resolve the problem.
It is your tactics which are out of date.
It is a long-standing tactic for M$ shills to point to old but still relevant problems and then assert that they are no longer true due to the passage of time.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 22 2018, @09:55AM
This is what Microsoft say on their corporate blog [microsoft.com]:
According to the quote above, the curl and wget are distinct from the aliases that existed in PowerShell, which you falsely said "are coming to the Vista series" (those were there from 2016). And the above also says that the tar command didn't ship with Windows before.
But thanks for misinforming us.