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

Show HN: I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc(github.com)

9 points by DenisDolya 50 days ago | 6 comments

goosethe 49 days ago |

https://gist.github.com/seanwevans/3e9ba17431d5464092d0fb839...

this compiles to 10kb on my machine with no golfing. it literally just supports grabbing whatever is at the url given (http 1.0)

Retr0id 50 days ago |

I did a <4KB one that supports DNS+TLS (albeit insecurely) https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/kurl/

DenisDolya 50 days 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?

Retr0id 50 days 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 50 days ago |

Does this do anything curl can’t or are we just enthralled with the tininess?

DenisDolya 50 days ago | |

Actually hfile has nothing new, So the basic philosophy here is a small binary.