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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Need Assistance -- Network Programming
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:40:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:54 this Wednesday (GMT):
> On 22 Jun 2024 09:37:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Yes, it's impressive to discover he never heard about wget or curl.
>
> I prefer wget to curl. curl includes client code for something like two 
> dozen different protocols, and that just adds to the potential for 
> security vulnerabilities, particularly when all those extra protocols 
> already have perfectly good clients of their own.
>
> wget, by contrast, concentrates on the basics: HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS. And 
> that’s it.


I'll be honest, I use both somewhat interchangeably. I know that you can
set the output file with -o in wget, but I still kinda prefer doing
curl url > file when I want it to be named something.

Also, hot tip: --content-disposition is great on some websites when
using wget, since otherwise it just saves it as the url basepath. Really
useful sometimes.
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