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Re: Online API

From: Tomalak Geret'kal via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 19:01:59 +0000

On 04/12/2020 18:21, Request X via curl-library wrote:
> Hello cURL subscribers,
> I code in node.js and recently wanted to use cURL in a
> node.js environment. I noticed that while there are some
> modules that say they are cURL, most are not actually
> based on curl, which sometimes results in cURL not getting
> blocked, while the nodejs version gets blocked. I think
> that if cURL (or somebody else) made an “official” cURL
> API that you could send POST requests to (and get the curl
> response back), cURL would instantly get multilingual
> support. All you would have to do is write a VERY simple
> wrapper around this API to request the cURL response and
> send it to the client, which you (in theory) could use on
> any coding language. I am not sure if this is the purpose
> of cURL (as it is a command—line interface tool), but i
> think that it could be really useful.

To my ears, either this is exactly what /libcurl/ does, or
you're asking for a curl instance to be made available
online as a service somewhere, which would be absurd.

Cheers



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Received on 2020-12-04