In the curl release after the next, there is a nice feature coming for event-based applications: notifications.
Some numbers on possible performance/cpu use improvements in the PR, ymmv.
#curl
![An implementation of the discussion #17817, adding a "notification" feature to the multi handle.
Notification types INFO_READ and EASY_DONE implemented
Notification types expected to gro...](https://eupolicy.social/system/cache/preview_cards/images/012/198/255/original/2d1591868548a8fb.png "An implementation of the discussion #17817, adding a "notification" feature to the multi handle.
Notification types INFO_READ and EASY_DONE implemented
Notification types expected to gro...")
AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg (youtube.com)
Show your external IP address on the command line:
`# curl -s https://ipinfo.io | jq -r .ip`
`1.2.3.4`
I use this a lot.
520 Wikipedia downloads per second are done with #curl
Is it time to add support for another TLS backend to #curl ? https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/18429
#curl is dropping support for OpenSSL 1.x soon
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/28/dropping-old-openssl/
A little oddity I discovered in #curl
https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/18424
I don't think it's a bug as such, but slightly unexpected behaviour.
Certainly very interested to hear your personal opinions / feedback (no need to tag people in your reply).
clang-tidy 21 suddenly generates a dozen new false positives on the #curl code base and I'm sad...
We have started the tedious and destined-to-always-lag-behind work of documenting #curl's view of the OpenSSL forks: https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/OpenSSL-forks
We are thirteen days away from next #curl release.
We have 17 changes and 225 bugfixes logged so far for this.
One low severity CVE will be published in sync with this release.
Thanks for flying curl.
Today we celebrate seven years of #curl shipping official Windows executables, thanks to @vsz's awesome work.
Blog post from back then:
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/08/27/blessed-curl-builds-for-windows/
The graph you didn't know you wanted.
Number of lines in the #curl man page over time.
"Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with #curl, from 113 distinct curl releases."
Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.
Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.
Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)
At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.
Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/-/snippets/247
I've seen someone in Cádiz walking around with a white
RIP curl
t-shirt and I was wondering what brought the end of #curl upon us.
And most importantly, why is there a shirt!
#curl 8.16.0-rc2 is here for testing. https://curl.se/rc/
Welcome Simon Dalvai as #curl commit author 1407: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18372
![Default handshake timeout is hardcoded (10 seconds) and doesn't respect --connect-timeout parameter. In some cases 10 seconds can be not enough or too long to "establish a connection"...](https://eupolicy.social/system/cache/preview_cards/images/012/188/912/original/da13c2c0d183c75c.png "Default handshake timeout is hardcoded (10 seconds) and doesn't respect --connect-timeout parameter. In some cases 10 seconds can be not enough or too long to "establish a connection"...")
