curl-library
Re: Speed comparison wget vs. curl (HTTPS/HTTP1/GnuTLS)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:07:04 -0500
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> I recently made a few comparisons between curl 7.50.0-DEV and wget 1.18 and
> was astonished about wget outperforming curl by some fair amount on single
> HTTPS request/response cycles.
>
> So my question goes... what is 'wrong' with that version of curl. Or what did
> I oversee - maybe some special options ?
The requested page does not exist, so wget does not download anything.
curl, on the other hand, will download the error page by default.
Try the --fail option to curl and see if it makes any difference.
- Jeff
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Received on 2016-06-29