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Could be, as curl comes preinstalled in Windows, MacOS and most of the linux distributions (non-minimal installations). But I don't think Android ships curl per default, but Android uses Java. Though I don't think there is an official number for this.

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Actual curl in Windows? The powershell namesake shares no implementation and only very superficial bit of interface.

"curl" in PowerShell is an alias to something else. There's also "curl.exe" that comes with Windows that is actually curl.

invoke-webrequest

https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html

The curl tool comes installed in addition to the dreaded curl alias that plagues Powershell users since it is an alias that runs the invoke-webrequest command and therefore isn't acting much like curl at all.

A work-around is to invoke curl as "curl.exe" to prevent powershell from treating it as an alias

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