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Open-source command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data over URLs using HTTP, FTP, and other protocols; widely embedded in software.
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TECH VEDA counts 36 actionable device CVEs across 14 non-kernel packages in September, two of them Chromium V8 bugs on CISA's exploited list. How many apply to a given fleet depends on each image's SBOM and on which scorer a team trusts.
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Microsoft says China-linked operators have used NeedyMantis since at least October 2025 to keep access to telecom, university and government-linked networks. It goes in after the break-in, so defenders have to hunt for it inside networks already breached.
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The IETF published RFC 10008 in June 2026 and IANA registered QUERY as safe and idempotent, so a structured read no longer has to travel as a POST. Whether the response stays cacheable depends on the caches on the path.
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Fabian Hedin, Lovable's CTO, said two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use the tool because staff found it themselves, and put current revenue at $600m. The permissions work starts after the apps are running.
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The five options that decide which private key opens a client certificate lived in a struct libcurl's connection-reuse check never reads, so two handles sharing a pool could share one authenticated connection. Commit 7541ae5 moves them.
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A site logged twenty requests for its unreachable /.env file from a client naming itself ClaudeBot. GreyNoise counted 824 addresses scanning under forged AI crawler names, and saw no request for robots.txt in the whole campaign.
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An architecture record for a health-data service spends one log event per deployment attempt, deriving the key fingerprint under an audit key held outside the log pipeline and holding the trail to 90 days.
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A dev.to harness stamps connect, TTFB, body, patch and test time on every generate call. In live mode the first two clocks come from one expression, so curl still names the handshake, and the published numbers are synthetic.
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A dev.to walkthrough reproduces a coding agent that followed curl --netrc out of a small repo and quoted homedir credentials into the chat. The author ships a CI gate for it and says plainly it is not a sandbox.
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The case that generated code fails without the usual warning signs comes from two practitioner accounts, while the only measured series is curl's inbound bug reports, and Daniel Stenberg stopped taking those in January 2026.
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A dev.to runbook for slow Linux virtual servers orders the read-only evidence, putting timestamps, per-CPU sampling and /proc/pressure ahead of any load test, because utilisation hides the waiting that users feel.
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Webhooks, image proxies, link unfurlers and PDF renderers all pass a user's string to an HTTP client that sits inside your private network, where the cloud metadata endpoint answers an unauthenticated GET and hands back IAM credentials.
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A dev.to walkthrough shows how a bot detector can score 99.7% accuracy while getting nearly one bot verdict in five wrong, and why only per-route counts of challenged known-human sessions show where the blocking lands.
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A dev.to comparison of hand-written nginx directives against delegated edge policy comes down to the inheritance and duplication rules that make a passing config file a poor description of what a client actually receives.
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Debugging an agent endpoint has to start on the wire, because a client that reports a parse error is describing the last thing that touched the bytes rather than the machine that swapped them out.
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In a dev.to field note, the HTTP handler answered every curl while the queue worker drained nothing, and the one signal that could have caught it was a heartbeat file the author never opened.
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Johann Rehberger's chain landed 60% to 80% of the time in the mode Claude Code has run by default since mid-August. Anthropic closed the report as informative and pointed customers at OS-level isolation.
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A dev.to writeup put curl in a loop through its own deploy and got 502 on every request while the app booted, which is the interval the release symlink never covered, and the nginx retry line most teams paste in points at an upstream group of one.
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A per-request nonce met a statically prerendered page, and the browser refused every script it was sent. Six health signals, including a 3,500-test suite, reported fine.
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CVE-2026-45871 was made up for a test and turned out to exist. The check resolved it against a global namespace rather than against the project it was meant to defend.
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