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		Y_Y on May 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I Could Rewrite Curl” I would be surprised if nobody had tried to make a mini-curl that could go in busybox. The idea of having a tiny version of the program which handles the 90% cases by itself but can call out to the real-deal bigger brother when necessary is a nice one. This sort-of happens already with lots of common tools which are shadowed by shell builtins, why not curl?

tephra on May 20, 2021 | [–]

Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for but there is: https://curl.se/tiny/

jethro_tell on May 20, 2021 | [–]

For embedded systems we'll usually make our own curl with the exact protocols features we need.

No surprise but curl can do that too!

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