Sunday, May 15, 2022

25 years with cURL

very interesting podcast interview with creator of cURL

it could be that cURL is deployed to more devices than SQLite!

it is used in many other tools and devices, including PHP

it is using other tools and libs, like SSL, and even Rust

Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL : Software Engineering Radio

... about the history of cURL, libcurl, whether C was the right choice, portability, key events in those 25 years, implementing protocols, why HTTP is not so simple, rust libs, the Polhem Prize, security issues, feature requests, random support requests, code on Mars, Apple OS adoption, cars stuck in production lines, Android OS, 8-week release cycles, release cycle joy, breakdown of bug types, 1000 committers, 250 cli options, user bases, determination, json, libSSH2, c-ares, HTTPbis, HTTP/2, QUIC, Mozilla, OpenSSL, WolfSSL, DNS, FTP, the cURL book, testing, CI/CD, favorite command line options that you might not know about, and making sure that you don’t give up on that idea or project you are working on.



"If your Windows 10 build is 17063, or later, cUrl is included by default. All you need to do is run Command Prompt with administrative rights and you can use cUrl . The Curl.exe is located at C:\Windows\System32. If you want to be able to use cUrl from anywhere, consider adding it to Path Environment Variables."


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