@bagder
What was the name of the project between #httpget and #curl?

Twenty-nine years ago on this day, #httpget 0.1 was released.

I found the tool a few days later and within a few months I became the maintainer. We later renamed it. Twice. The last name it got is #curl. It stuck.

httpget was my first insight and lesson into HTTP and since then I have kept learning it.

httpget 0.1 was written by Rafael Sagula, who unfortunately is not with us anymore.

Here's my fork of #httpget 0.2 and 1.3 (that later would become #curl) minimally fixed to build and run on modern Linux. Please note that these fixes are exactly that: They just make the commands actually build, run, and perform the basic task. Other than that, I attempted to preserve as much of the original buggy behaviour as possible. There are known security issues with these commands, and these #vulnerabilities remain. I repeat, do *NOT* use these commands for anything but research and toying around. You have been warned.

https://github.com/piru/httpget/tree/minimal-fixes

#oss #opensource #softwarepreservation

Sunday surprise!

A friend of mine found an old email from me dated January 17 1997

Attached in this mail was the #httpget 0.2 source code. Previously believed to be lost, now the oldest httpget code I have.

165 lines long. 110 lines code, 30 lines comments, 25 blank lines.

This morning, #curl was 174,854 lines of code, not counting blank lines but comments.

1248 times larger over 28 years.

Enjoyed my late night holiday project, getting to build a simple web crawler app using Go.

SQLc is growing on me...

#sqlc #golang #httpget