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Does anybody know how does #curl work? I mean behind the scenes, I can't read the code just yet but I'm very interested in how a program really makes an HTTP request and stuff
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I once tried to explain it all in a single slide like this...

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drew batchelor
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@bagder Can I just say that the fact that the curl guy responds to stuff like this on mastodon is, at this point, one of the only cool things about the world. No pressure!
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d2718
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@bagder @tek_dmn Okay, but what's with… happy eyeballs?
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yeah.... it was a bit hard to get into the image so it's only mention in a box bottom right
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happy eyeballs is trying to setup multiple connections in parallel and going with the one that succeeds first. Typically a way to pick IPv4 vs IPv6.
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