We have plenty of #curl talks, explainers and deep-dives collected on the curl site.

https://curl.se/docs/videos/

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#when ist das #curl unter den Kalenderwerkzeugen,

es macht was es soll, geht nicht kaputt,

https://hackershell.noblogs.org/post/2017/10/23/when-einfacher-terminkalander/

@sethmlarson ack, the #curl version of roughly the same slide:
Number of Hackerone submissions to #curl the first five months of 2026 compared to the same period of 2025. Counted weekly. The blue is 2026. The yellow is 2025.
The pressure

I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a … Continue reading The pressure β†’

daniel.haxx.se
@AgilePreacher Daten abrufen oder senden anhand von URLs. Meistens HTTP. So simpel eigentlich #curl
Welcome Josef Cejka as #curl commit author 1482: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21706
http: prefer chunked encoding over Content-Length: 0 by malyzelenyhnus Β· Pull Request #21706 Β· curl/curl

Call http_size() before checking the request for empty body to prefer Transfer-Encoding: chunked even if Content-Length is 0. http_size() sets k->maxdownload to -1 if both headers are present to...

GitHub

TIL: you can do SMTP with #curl :

```
echo -e "From: [email protected]\nTo: [email protected]\nSubject: Email subject\nEmail body" | curl smtp://email-gateway:25 --mail-from [email protected] --mail-rcpt [email protected] --upload-file - -v
```

Me: Downloading #nixOS ISO with #curl

2MB/s (bad speeds, crap internet)

Also me: Downloading #nixos iso through #librewolf private window

5KB/s

I wish I was joking. Does librewolf knock down downloads speeds on purpose or smth 😭

#curl 8.21.0-rc1 is up at https://curl.se/rc/
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