Comment by jancsika

> Open-source code like curl is inevitable when a society gains internet

Maybe, but there's maybe an alternate universe that doesn't begin with such a dumbass implementation of the web.

"Excuse me everybody, how about we not make it common for clients to describe themselves with a simple plaintext string and not have servers expect to blithely log that same string as if the invention of packet switching predates the invention of lying."

Perhaps ours is the only universe where the grad student who was supposed to utter that missed the bus that day.