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@kiyo I don't know and I don't care that much. If people want it added there it will be added. For users such as #curl, we add things like DoH ourselves anyway and it would be hard to use any such provided by c-ares because of the "different layer" it works on.
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I compared #curl today vs curl 8 years ago on malloc count + memory use to download a single 512MB file over cleartext HTTP:

129 mallocs, which is exactly the same.

Maximum allocated now: 135566. 17,681 bytes *less* than eight years ago.

Not everything has to go bloat over time I suppose.

And here's the old blog post: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22…


Fewer mallocs in curl

Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do.
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Four years ago we introduced this #curl graph
Number of planets running curl. A plot with a straight line for one planet over many years until 2021 when it bumps up to two.
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Starting with the next #curl release (8.14.0), the #wcurl script will come bundled. To make it easier for everyone to do more curl better of course.
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The AI-slop-security-vulnerability-counter for #curl was bumped twice this week.
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Look, @icing now has his name on more than 1/4 of the lines of #curl production source code:
top-40 authors with production code remaining in master (for curl)
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Every topic I usually blab about here in a single weekend in Prague? That's basically #curl up 2025. Consider yourself invited. Only two weeks away now.

github.com/curl/curl-up/wiki/2…


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All things related to the curl up conference series - curl/curl-up
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The #curl git repository at GitHub is being cloned once every four seconds on average.
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Meanwhile in #curl land, we can now do #HTTP3 with #ngtcp2 1.12.0 and #OpenSSL 3.5.

Thanks to lots of amazing people, including @icing and Tatsuhiro of ngtcp2 of course.

#http3 #OpenSSL #curl #ngtcp2 @Stefan Eissing

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Getting a bug report submitted on a #curl release done **twelve** years ago. Apparently it can crash in some circumstance...
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#curl #fossnorth @daniel:// stenberg:// @FOSS North conference Sweden

I'll run over to #fossnorth tomorrow, where I primarily will hand out #curl stickers and socialize with people.

Oh and do a little keynote at 9am Monday morning titled "What comes after world domination?"

What comes after world domination? (with a photo of a running dog)
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"Hello Daniel,

I see that libcurl has been used in several scraping builds — I’m hiring for a freelance job that relies on custom session handling and API scraping logic."

Oh dear. I know I talk about getting people to pay for #curl, but I think this is taking it a little too far... 🤠

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curl HTTP/3 with OpenSSL 3.5 may be coming you way soon. Tatsuhiro, the maintainer of ngtcp2, did the (unnecessarly) heavy lifting to adapt and I did the comparatively few changes for it in curl.

Once ngtcp2 releases, we can merge that hopefully for the next curl release. If you want to test, see:

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1702…
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ngtcp2+openssl support by icing · Pull Request #17027 · curl/curl

With the new addition of QUIC support and the support in ngtcp2 main branch, make the necessary adjustments in curl to support this combination. add support in configure.ac to detect the feature O...
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The annual #curl distro meeting happened. Thanks everyone who participated. Good discussions. Excellent feedback. I have some action items.

curl might just get yet a little better as a result of this!

a red heart symbol with the curl symbol inside, also in red
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#OpenSSL #curl #ngtcp2

MSFT should be tried in the Hague for silently overloading #curl with Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell. Just tell me cURL isn't installed!

Edit: Thanks! curl.exe *is*, but still, justice for `curl`

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Remember, if you just take this day as a weekend, your #curl rewrite could be finished

(from the collection at daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20…)

I used curl to test my handwritten HTTP 2.0 server. That includes sending chunked, compression support, SSL with the 3 basic auth methods, all the various verbs, etc. I could write curl in a 3 day weekend comfortably.

“I could rewrite curl”

Collected quotes and snippets from people publicly sneezing off or belittling what curl is, explaining how easy it would be to make a replacement in no time with no effort or generally not being very helpful. These are statements made seriously.
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The #curl repository now contains more than 100,000 lines of documentation.

100,002 lines to be exact. 😁

a graph plot growing from zero in year 2000 to 100k in early 2025
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brute-force testing random #curl build option combinations non-stop like a boss
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#curl #ptsd #torment

#curl's configure script has 75(!) different --disable options to disable specific things in the build.

That's 37778931862957161709568 build combinations only there. Tricky to test.

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amusing stat: in #curl 8.13.0 we have "surviving" code lines from 622 authors. (who has at least one production code line with their name in git blame)

That's 11 *fewer* than in the previous release.

In fact, we peaked at 636 unique authors in version 8.10.1 and it has gone down since.

No, I don't have any conclusion to make based on this. It's just variations over time.

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