[ducktective]

>curl is always available

curl is not installed by default in many distros

Also, I don't think it's possible to call external processes from within the browser sandbox

[genghizkhan]

> curl is not installed by default in many distros

Which ones (apart from alpine)? I thought curl was pretty much as basic as it got and is always there.

[flatiron]

I just installed Ubuntu using deboostrap and it did not come with curl (to my surprise)

[skrtskrt]

debian

[Aperocky]

On the top of the concept, not curl itself.

If curl can run locally, so should all of these tools.