On Thursday, June 30, 2016 09:37:09 Tim Ruehsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2016 16:07:04 Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Wget *does* download the page, it just doesn't save it by default. But
> output is redirected to /dev/null anyways and the page just has 1,5kb.
>
> Tim

Why does wget download pages to /dev/null? It does not sound exactly useful.

Kamil

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