[rdtsc]

Curl here is used generically, as in “client for url”? This is not cURL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL). I found it a bit confusing. My first thought was “I sure don’t remember curl running JavaScript from pages it fetches”.

[bragh]

Everybody say "thank you, Microsoft!". Until PowerShell 6, curl in pwsh was an alias to Invoke-WebRequest: https://lazyadmin.nl/powershell/using-curl/

Obviously, it does not cause any confusion at all because all the Windows admins always install the latest and greatest versions of Powershell into the environments they administer.

[rdtsc]

Oh wow. I had no idea. I bet Daniel had a lot of fun fielding "curl is broken on Windows" issues.

[goldsteinq]

I wanted to make a more descriptive title, mentioning that Microsoft uses its own program for `curl` command, but ran out of characters.

[mjmas]

Older versions of Powershell have it as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest. (Which also overrides using the actual cURL program if you don't put .exe)