Dan Q (@dan@danq.me)

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🆕 blog! “http:, ftp:, and ... dict:?”

I went for a spelunk through an ancient codebase a few weeks ago which contained a curious regex that I just couldn't grok.

{<((https?|ftp|dict|tel):[^\'">\s]+)>}i

I'm familiar with HTTP and FTP. I worked in the mobile industry, so knew that tel:+44... could be used to launch a dialer. But DICT?!?!?! It turns out that, lurking on […]

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@Edent of course curl supports it. Is there anything you can’t use curl for?

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@jon @Edent curl still doesn't support gemini:// links out-of-the-box, which annoys me every time I try to use it for that!

And its mqtt:// support is really basic; barely supports any of the protocol. That bugged me the other week.

So yeah, there are things curl can't do. But I like to think of them as "things curl can't do... YET."

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@dan @jon @Edent doesn't work on my standard curl :(

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