14 engineers on Hacker News describe using curl first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I shouldn't have to look at the man pages this regularly just to remember the letters I need to type”
mixed · personal · 10 yr · sweezyjeezy · 2022-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using curl for command line http stuff for years and years... struggling with curl's POST body options”
mixed · personal · fanf2 · 2019-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do use curl commands in production for stuff like user data in an aws cloudformation template.”
endorse · production · empath75 · 2017-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I discovered a few of these already this year and have been using them a lot (mtr, pv, curl for inspecting headers)”
endorse · personal · IamBren · 2012-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use curl for sample API calls in our docs because it's ubiquitous”
endorse · production · goronbjorn · 2012-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Library support for them is wonky - we've run into issues with curl, the PKI infrastructure in Windows”
regret · production · sriramk · 2012-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using homegrown scripts designed around wget and curl”
neutral · personal · thisIsFiner · 2026-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're already firing off cURL commands during development; turning that into a test suite with zero extra effort is a nice DX win.”
neutral · production · Mintaras · 2025-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Perfectly good to do it in the morning by copy pasting curl oneliner from the keepass.”
neutral · production · viralpoetry · 2018-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run into the issue on RPi/Raspbian - curl hangs indefinitely.”
neutral · personal · alexellisuk · 2017-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used it for quick hacks but definitely nothing in production.”
neutral · personal · throwbsidbdk · 2016-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they use a few other libs as well, e.g. cURL, openssl, gsl.”
neutral · production · noselasd · 2013-03-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so we should really switch back to curl.”
neutral · production · StefanKarpinski · 2012-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“whereas curl, firefox and chrome have all accepted it”
neutral · personal · erikano · 2010-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?