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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”.


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.


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


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


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)




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