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morpheuskafka 41 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using...

> No, it can not. Bash lets you open TCP sockets.

I thought you had to use a program called netcat for that--if not then what is the point of that binary? And for that matter, can't you also use telnet to manually send HTTP?

some_random 41 days ago | [–]

nc is basically just a nicer interface for the same thing, in the same way that curl is.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/nc

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