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Nine years ago today, a #curl command line was prominent on an even larger display...

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/04/24/curl-on-the-nasdaq-tower/

curl on the NASDAQ tower | daniel.haxx.se

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... but we don't like the unnecessary -X POST there of course: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/

Unnecessary use of curl -X | daniel.haxx.se

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with all due respect this sounds like a confusing cli argument design. I am the one doing it wrong :’) I personally can never remember all the #curl arguments, only the most commonly used ones, and -X is one that is easy to remember and can be used for many occasions. Maybe the solution should be to prefer -X always and a separate argument for whether the redirects should follow explicitly given method
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@ddenis it may be confusing, it may be "wrong", but we implemented this decades ago so changing it now would cause breakage and havoc in countless places - so we won't...
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@ddenis and really, most people who abuse it *adds* the option, as they already use -d, so it's rarely about actually remembering options.
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absolutely understandable. Curl is so ubiquitous, it is not possible to change the behavior that tons of scripts and developers rely on. Thanks for making curl ❤
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