[chasil]

Curl actually does far more than wget.

Wget implements these protocols:

  $ man wget | fgrep 'HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP'
       the Web.  It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as

A full-featured curl (and specifically not the one distributed by Microsoft) implements additional protocols:

  C:\>curl --version
  curl 8.2.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/8.2.1 OpenSSL/3.1.2 (Schannel) zlib/1.2.13 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.5.5 WinIDN libssh2/1.11.0 nghttp2/1.55.1 ngtcp2/0.18.0 nghttp3/0.14.0 libgsasl/2.2.0
  Release-Date: 2023-07-26
  Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss
  Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli gsasl HSTS HTTP2 HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz MultiSSL NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe UnixSockets zstd

Some of the particular protocols are limited - SMB, for example, is only SMBv1 (and not v2 or v3).

Microsoft's version is currently:

  C:\>curl --version
  curl 8.0.1 (Windows) libcurl/8.0.1 Schannel WinIDN
  Release-Date: 2023-03-20
  Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps pop3 pop3s smtp smtps telnet tftp
  Features: AsynchDNS HSTS HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile NTLM SPNEGO SSL SSPI threadsafe Unicode UnixSockets