A swiss army knife is a single tool that contains a number of other smaller tools that you can use in many different circumstances.
Curl is a metaphorical “swiss army knife” for connecting to computers. There are many protocols to connect to different kinds of computers running different kinds of software and curl allows one to easily connect to many of them.
Think of a protocol like a language; if you just blurt out sounds no one will understands, but if you make sounds that correspond to an already agreed upon meaning, it becomes communications.
The same thing is true for sending 1s and 0s; they are meaningless unless the other end understands them and a protocol is “the agreement” both ends use to communicate.
Different federated platforms talking to each other will look like this sometimes. In this case it’s a microblogging platform talking to a threaded conversation platform. It’s just a quirk of federation in general.
hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext transfer protocol secure. it’s the basic network protocol of the modern internet. hypertext can be thought of as being html (hypertext markup language) though other hypertext specifications do exist. hypertext just means documents with links to other documents.
you know how when you copy a url (universal resource location) from your web browser it always has http or https at the start of it? that’s because your web browser is connecting to an external server somewhere via the hypertext transfer protocol.
cURL can connext to nearly any server via nearly any standard protocol. it’s commonly used for validating connection information and downloading files
It’s the protocol most computers use to show websites. In an internet address like https://google.com/, the https:// is the protocol. Different protocols have different features and purposes, but http/https are some of the most common.
🤷 it’s kind of just a function of thah activity pub is loosy goosy about how and what to do with it. end of the day it’s the threadiverse that’s weird and we need to just kind of accept these lumps until lemmy/piefed/mbin devs and mastodon/misskey/whatever devs all get on an issue and decide how best to do this
It’s an open source project that is like a Swiss Army knife for, primarily http/https, connections.
I use it daily for scripting, monitoring and automation.
@[email protected] l often come across this phrase, Swiss Army knife… What does it mean actually ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife
A swiss army knife is a single tool that contains a number of other smaller tools that you can use in many different circumstances.
Curl is a metaphorical “swiss army knife” for connecting to computers. There are many protocols to connect to different kinds of computers running different kinds of software and curl allows one to easily connect to many of them.
@[email protected] thanks. I really need to understand what protocols actually are.
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Think of a protocol like a language; if you just blurt out sounds no one will understands, but if you make sounds that correspond to an already agreed upon meaning, it becomes communications.
The same thing is true for sending 1s and 0s; they are meaningless unless the other end understands them and a protocol is “the agreement” both ends use to communicate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_protocol
Read this @[email protected]
@[email protected] thanks 😊 😊 😊
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Why?
A protocol is like a language. It just lets two computers know how to talk to each other. That’s it.
@[email protected] wow… But l’m on my android phone…
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Wikipedia works on phones. I’m on an Android phone. Why do you keep pinging that person? This looks like harassment/trolling.
Edit: are you confused because I said “computers?” Your phone is a computer.
Different federated platforms talking to each other will look like this sometimes. In this case it’s a microblogging platform talking to a threaded conversation platform. It’s just a quirk of federation in general.
@[email protected] probably an example regarding how curl works ??🤓🤓🤓
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Well, that’s horrifying -.-
@[email protected] http/https connections means ?
hypertext transfer protocol and hypertext transfer protocol secure. it’s the basic network protocol of the modern internet. hypertext can be thought of as being html (hypertext markup language) though other hypertext specifications do exist. hypertext just means documents with links to other documents.
you know how when you copy a url (universal resource location) from your web browser it always has
httporhttpsat the start of it? that’s because your web browser is connecting to an external server somewhere via the hypertext transfer protocol.cURL can connext to nearly any server via nearly any standard protocol. it’s commonly used for validating connection information and downloading files
It’s the protocol most computers use to show websites. In an internet address like https://google.com/, the https:// is the protocol. Different protocols have different features and purposes, but http/https are some of the most common.
@[email protected] l need to explore this a lot more. Can you give me some more leads on this ?
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First, tell me why you need to know. And please stop pinging that person, it’s really rude to ping someone so many times when not responding to them.
they’re not on the threadiverse, they’re on mastodon where the threading works differently. their software is doing that automatically
Maddening
🤷 it’s kind of just a function of thah activity pub is loosy goosy about how and what to do with it. end of the day it’s the threadiverse that’s weird and we need to just kind of accept these lumps until lemmy/piefed/mbin devs and mastodon/misskey/whatever devs all get on an issue and decide how best to do this