named globs with curl 🔗
One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in [...]
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Mythos finds a curl vulnerability 🔗
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously go [...]
Approaching zero bugs? 🔗
In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as [...]
Inspired 🔗
In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful word [...]
curl 8.20.0 🔗
You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (to [...]
High-Quality Chaos 🔗
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the c [...]
Don’t trust, verify 🔗
Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to ver [...]
One hundred weirdo emails 🔗
I hope I don’t have to spell it out but I will do it anyway: in these cases I don’t know anything about their products and I cannot help them. Quite o [...]
NTLM and SMB go opt-in 🔗
The NTLM authentication method was always a beast. It is a proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft which was reverse engineered a long time ago. Th [...]
bye bye RTMP 🔗
In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world’s internet transfer protocols. RTMP The protoc [...]