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Fresh curl tomorrow will patch 'worst' security flaw in ages

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5 pointsLinuxBender5 comments

Opportunity:

Write a tool that can fetch a URL over HTTP/1.1 (and nothing else). Use a memory safe language. Support the most commonly used curl CLI options. Come up with a suitable name for the distribution but make sure that the actual installed binary is called curl.

Check out xh - much easier to use than curl and faster than HTTPie.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

What makes this much easier to use than cURL? Looking at the examples in xh, it seems that the syntax takes about the same amount of effort to learn

  curl --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"foo":"bar","baz":42}' https://httpbin.org/post

  xh https://httpbin.org/post foo=bar baz:=42

Noted. I'll try to remind myself to update tomorrow.

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