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NoGravitas on Dec 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: HTTP/3 Is Fast

You could still do valid HTTP/1.1 over nc or telnet, or 'openssl s_client' if you needed TLS; it was just a matter of you knowing the protocol, and the minimum required headers for your use-case. (That said, curl is generally a better choice.)

Dylan16807 on Dec 15, 2021 [–]

> or 'openssl s_client' if you needed TLS

Which sites tend to need.

I'm sure someone can make an equivalent to that. Maybe even just a wrapper around curl...

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