This is a bonus clip from the after call with Daniel Stenberg for episode #153. Daniel shared the details of a “magic feature” in cURL that’s been there for over 6 years. It’s a feature he feels most people don’t know exists.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

To start using this “magic feature”, create a .curlrc dotfile in your root with the following settings to set the -O flag by default on all URLs fetched using cURL.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!