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CLI Magic: Use cURL to measure Web site statistics (Linux.com)
Linux.com looks at
cURL. "cURL is a handy command-line network tool whose name stands
for "client for URLs," but think of it as a "copy for URLs" -- it can copy
to or from a given URL in any of nine different protocols. Although cURL
is sometimes misconceived as an updated wget, that's wrong. The two
utilities do share some features and options, but are distinctly different
tools; wget is for downloading files from the Web, and is best used to
mirror entire sites or parts of sites -- which is something that cURL alone
can't do."
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CLI Magic: Use cURL to measure Web site statistics (Linux.com) Posted Oct 17, 2006 6:20 UTC (Tue) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link] Translated:The two utilities are in 9 out of 10 usage-scenarios completely interchangable. However, curl lacks the -R switch for recursion, and we are therefore going to claim it is a completely different sort of animal. Lacking an option or two does not make two tools "distinctly different", if that was so, then Gnu tar and the tar that comes as standard in SunOS would be "distinctly different tools". Which one is superior is largely a matter of taste.
CLI Magic: Use cURL to measure Web site statistics (Linux.com) Posted Oct 17, 2006 9:42 UTC (Tue) by MKesper (guest, #38539) [Link] I think the main difference is the existence of libcurl which makes it easier to integrate it into your applications.
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