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1. Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:46:00 UTC Daniel Stenberg

   1,000 curl commit authors https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/30/1000-commit-authors/ - history, numbers, a graph and not the least... a fresh gource video!

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   • Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:46:31 UTC Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @bagder Maybe that's all I want to do. I don't want to include an entire web browser in my program. But the interface to OpenSSL at the low-level for HTTPS seemed to complicated as well.

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   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:46:31 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     @sjb it supports 26 protocols, 13 TLS libraries, 3 SSH libraries, 2 HTTP/3 libraries, 5 HTTP versions, many HTTP auth methods, and a stable ABI and API since decades. You'll have to search a long time to find alternatives that can beat that.

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   • Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:46:32 UTC Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @bagder Should "getting a webpage as a string" really require 110k lines of code? I like cURL because it simplifies my code but this seems odd.

   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:46:32 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb if all curl does for you is "getting a web page as a string", then you have more to explore...

   • Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:28 UTC Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     • Elias Mårtenson

     @loke @bagder It works well - I just didn't realise it was "large". The Windows DLL is 4MB, which is fine in the modern world I guess.

   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:28 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb @bagder that was my point and the reason I brought up my Riscos project. That system is as old world as it gets while still running on computers made in the last decade (typically used on raspberry pi).

     Also, aren't there flags when compiling so you can choose what to include?

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   • Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:29 UTC Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @bagder I want a C library that provides a function

     char *getwebpage(char *url);

     where url is "https://domain,etc" and the returned string is the content of the page.

     I guess there must be some other libraries that provide this.

   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:29 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb @bagder is three an actual issue you're having with libcurl? It may have capabilites you don't need, but it's extremely compatible and works everywhere. I was using it in a Mastodon client for Riscos that I was developing.

   • Stephen Brooks 🦆 (sjb@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:30 UTC Stephen Brooks 🦆

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     @bagder Suppose I just want to fetch a webpage as a string over HTTPS, though. Should I be using something lighter-weight than libcurl?

   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jan-2022 07:47:30 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     • Stephen Brooks 🦆

     @sjb I don't think you understand what you're asking, but feel free to use whatever you want!