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libcurl | libwebsockets | |
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300 | 12 | |
34,041 | 4,569 | |
2.1% | 1.4% | |
9.9 | 8.6 | |
7 days ago | 22 days ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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libcurl
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Caching RESTful API requests with Heroku’s Redis Add-on
Then, in another terminal window, we use curl to hit the endpoint:
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Verified Curl
I'm not a fan of the "Reproducible tarballs" section, because it's explicitly about pre-processing the source code with autotools, instead of distributing a pure, unaltered git snapshot (which `git archive` can already generate in a deterministic way).
The section following then mentions signing the pre-processed source code, which I think is the wrong approach. It makes a difficult situation because of how strongly some people encourage signed source code, yet I think autotools is part of the build process and should run in the build server (and double checked by reproducible builds). If people pre-process the .orig.tar.xz they upload to Debian, this pre-processing won't be covered by reproducible builds because it happens undocumented.
The patch for "reproducible tarballs" is quite involved[0] and has rookie mistakes like "pin a specific container image using `@sha256:...` syntax, but then invoke `apt-get update` and `apt-get install` to install whatever Debian ships at that time".
Made a PR to curl in line with the above: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/13338
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Open source at Fastly is getting opener
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- Bruno
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Apple curl security incident 12604
This looks to be a general issue with curl.
On Windows by default it will also be checking the OS certificate store.
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pyaction 4.28.0 Released
This Docker image is designed to support implementing Github Actions with Python. As of version 4.0.0., it starts with the official python docker image as the base which is a Debian OS. It specifically uses python:3-slim to keep the image size down for faster loading of Github Actions that use pyaction. On top of the base, we've installed curl gpg, git, and the GitHub CLI. We added curl and gpg because they are needed to install the GitHub CLI, and they may come in handy anyway (especially curl) when implementing a GitHub Action.
- Curl HTTP/3 Performance
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LLM spews nonsense in CVE report for curl
I believe they have a bit of a point, as it isn’t locally obvious that randlen will match the zero-terminated length of randstr, at https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/1d8e8c9ad1ff3351386422535f.... It depends on the exact behavior and interface
libwebsockets
- FLaNK Weekly 08 Jan 2024
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Libwebsockets
This is just the endemic result of C++ lacking a package manager.
Every library starts out small, adds its own vendored utilities, adds its own dependencies, and eventually becomes boost.
To be fair to this project, theyve worked quite hard to make the library consumable by others… but yes, its hard to look at the code like https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/blob/50ba61082dc40b...
…and not go… really? As part of the core of libwebsocket?
When you read the justification it’s mostly “well we have a good framework now, so why not use it for other things too?”
C++ life.
/shrug
- Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 7, 2021
Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library\ (48 comments)
- Libwebsockets a powerful and lightweight pure C library
What are some alternatives?
Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
WebSocket++ - C++ websocket client/server library
Simple-WebSocket-Server
µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
cpp-httplib - A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
Mongoose - Embedded Web Server
cpp-netlib - The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.