Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc

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• Retr0id 6 hours ago
  I did a <4KB one that supports DNS+TLS (albeit insecurely) https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/
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  • DenisDolya 6 hours ago
    This is of course great, and very creative, but why not use an HTTP proxy if this TLS is still unprotected?

    Did I misunderstand something?

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    • Retr0id 6 hours ago
      Many servers support TLS only, so implementing the client side of TLS was a matter of compatibility, not security. If external dependencies are allowed then why not just use libcurl?
• indigodaddy 8 hours ago
  Does this do anything curl can’t or are we just enthralled with the tininess?
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  • DenisDolya 7 hours ago
    Actually hfile has nothing new, So the basic philosophy here is a small binary.