{"id":12048,"date":"2019-03-05T08:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T07:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=12048"},"modified":"2025-03-05T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T06:41:11","slug":"julias-cheat-sheet-for-curl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/julias-cheat-sheet-for-curl\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia&#8217;s cheat sheet for curl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0rk\">Julia Evans<\/a> makes these lovely comic style cheat sheets for various linux\/unix networking tools and a while ago <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b0rk\/status\/1088981000955355136\">she made one for curl<\/a>. I figured I&#8217;d show it here if you happened to miss <a href=\"https:\/\/wizardzines.com\/\">her awesome work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69d841c5b5383&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69d841c5b5383\" class=\"wp-block-image wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1146\" height=\"742\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/julia-evans-curl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/julia-evans-curl.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/julia-evans-curl-200x129.jpg 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/julia-evans-curl-450x291.jpg 450w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/julia-evans-curl-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, people have already pointed out to her that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> -vv is no different than -v in curl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Safari also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/copy-as-curl\/\">copy as curl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2015\/09\/11\/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x\/\">-X POST is not a good idea<\/a> to encourage users to use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Evans makes these lovely comic style cheat sheets for various linux\/unix networking tools and a while ago she made one for curl. I figured I&#8217;d show it here if you happened to miss her awesome work. And yes, people have already pointed out to her that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,455],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-documentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26741,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions\/26741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}