curl better

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curl supports 24 transfer protocols, about 230+ command-line options, and ~2,200 contributors; it ships in macOS (since 2001) and Windows (since 2018). Practical tips: use -I for HEAD, -L to follow redirects, save cookies with a cookie jar, use -v and --trace for full request/response dumps, and prefer specific options over -X or -k — avoid -X and -k. Advanced tricks: --resolve and --connect-to for testing, --write-out JSON for metadata, and --libcurl generates C source to bootstrap integrations; HTTP/3 support is experimental.

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1. 0:00Introduction and welcome
2. 0:39Speaker introduction
3. 2:48Overview of the curl project
4. 7:15HTTP basics and curl usage
5. 10:00Basic request techniques
6. 14:14Managing redirects
7. 16:01Advanced globbing features
8. 18:14Debugging with verbose mode
9. 19:44Customizing requests
10. 21:54Method usage and risks
11. 24:58Handling cookies
12. 27:49HTTPS and networking tricks
13. 30:40Deep inspection with tracing
14. 32:11Extracting metadata
15. 33:57Generating libcurl code
16. 35:27Browser integration tools
17. 37:31TLS traffic analysis
18. 39:51Advanced protocol handling
19. 43:00Final tips and resources
20. 44:42Q&A session

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