[wlug] Re: cURL, the omnipresent data tool, is getting a 25th birthday party this month

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:04:18 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:

'The cURL tool started as a way for programmer Daniel Stenberg to let Internet Chat Relay users quickly fetch currency exchange rates while still inside their chat window.'

Curl vs wget -- which one to use, and when? Curl seems better at HTTP form submissions. Wget can do bulk HTTP/FTP downloads, including mirroring of entire sites. Curl supports a much wider range of protocols, including SCP and SFTP, while Wget concentrates on HTTP/HTTPS and FTP. One minor thing: wget will use the “Last-Modified” HTTP header line, if specified, to set the last-modified date/time on the downloaded file. I can’t see any curl option to do this.