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by zamadatix 435 days ago
The post mentions the server is used during the optional execution. My guess as to why would be primarily because there are plenty of curl commands which are impossible to execute via the browser due to browser restrictions and secondarily because the execution is literally running curl, not trying to approximate the equivalent action.

Local execution could still be a handy feature for at least the most common basic commands though, but it'd start to have to wade into "explaining a lot to the user why this isn't really what the result might look like" territory.
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VWWHFSfQ 435 days ago
It actually looks like the server is used regardless. It's sending the full curl command to the backend even if not executing it.
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zamadatix 435 days ago
Well yeah, it's generating short links. I mean to highlight the server runs curl in a sandbox against the 3rd party host on behalf of the user, not just that the server and client talk to each other as you use the page.
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