I'm one of the 98%, and I don't like using cURL for this reason -- the CLI feels clunky and its gigantic number of options are distracting for my simple use case.
Can anyone recommend a good alternative for the base case?
Can anyone recommend a good alternative for the base case?
That said, I still will reach for cURL even when simpler options exist because it's ubiquitous. Same thing with Bash, grep, and sed.