What is an http client and what cURL?
What is an http client and what cURL?
I'm beginning to learn to code.
Someone said to me: "cURL is the best http client".
To help me understand this sentence, I have two questions:
what is an HTTP CLIENT; and
what is cURL?
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– negar
Aug 25 at 14:07
Hard to believe. Anyway, a HTTP Client is something that you can use to consume a web service.
– Nicholas K
Aug 25 at 14:09
I am assuming OP is new, and not sure OP knows where to begin. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and have proposed an edit to refine what I believe he is asking. To be fair to him I googled to find a "newbie level" to link to and, surprising, there were no clear answers in my first page.
– TBB
Aug 25 at 14:13
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I understand you are asking two things:
This is any program/application used make communications on the web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A common example is a browser.
This a particular HTTP CLIENT designed to make HTTP communications on the web but built to be used via the command line of a terminal (command prompt).
If you perform a search for these topics, you will easily be able to find more in depth explanations about each.
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Have you done any research on this? A simple google search would have helped.
– Nicholas K
Aug 25 at 14:03