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Yes. By curl.

Every time comments like yours come up I'm just thinking "yeah, the fucker have no idea how much handling of edge cases comes up with libs like that"

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I have implemented many networking applications from Ethernet to application protocols. I am also particularly aware of how HTTP and all the related stack works.

So your thinking appears to be inaccurate.

Isn't that just one side of the coin? The other being hardware compatibility.

There is nothing hardware-specific here.

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