As a tangent, I've found httpie to be a decent curl replacement for many uses.
I for one always pronounce WWW "woo woo woo"! [2]
>Moe asked older brother Shemp to take Curly's place, but Shemp was hesitant to rejoin the Stooges as he was enjoying a successful solo career. He realized, however, that not rejoining the Stooges would mean the end of Moe's and Larry's film careers. Shemp wanted assurance that rejoining them would be only temporary, and that he could leave the Stooges once Curly recovered. However, Curly's health continued to deteriorate, and it became clear that he couldn't return. The Stooges turned to comedian Buddy Hackett as a replacement, but Hackett declined, and Shemp remained a Stooge. Curly remained ill until his death of a cerebral hemorrhage from additional strokes on January 18, 1952.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Stooges#Shemp.27s_re...
I had problems with Voxeo's Java IVR web service calling back to my https server using SNI, since they were apparently using some old Java http client libraries [1], or not using the new ones correctly.
I had the darnedest time figuring out what was going wrong, and when I finally did, they weren't responsive to the suggestion they upgrade their library and fix their code to support SNI, so I had to punch an insecure hole for them to call back through.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12361090/server-name-indi...
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