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13 hours ago

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2 hours ago

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https://gist.github.com/seanwevans/3e9ba17431d5464092d0fb839...

this compiles to 10kb on my machine with no golfing. it literally just supports grabbing whatever is at the url given (http 1.0)

11 hours ago

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I did a <4KB one that supports DNS+TLS (albeit insecurely) https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/

11 hours ago

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This is of course great, and very creative, but why not use an HTTP proxy if this TLS is still unprotected?

Did I misunderstand something?

11 hours ago

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Many servers support TLS only, so implementing the client side of TLS was a matter of compatibility, not security. If external dependencies are allowed then why not just use libcurl?

13 hours ago

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Does this do anything curl can’t or are we just enthralled with the tininess?

12 hours ago

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Actually hfile has nothing new, So the basic philosophy here is a small binary.