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daniel:// stenberg://<p>Welcome Dominik Tomecki as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>curl</span></a> commit author 1397: <a href="https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16643" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/curl/curl/pull/16643</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

Native Schannel TLS stack of #Windows was so unreliable it got axed from #curl:
* Never worked reliably under real‑world loads.
* Quirky, cumbersome API/architecture that broke integrations.
* Zero developer interest—nobody tested or maintained it.
* Pure maintenance drag with no real benefit.

So #Microsoft again shipped a built‑in that nobody uses, and projects ditch it entirely in favor of better third‑party alternatives.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/29

daniel.haxx.se · Carving out msh3I hope that by now most readers of my blog have understood that curl, and libcurl specifically, is an architecture with a transfer core with a set of different backends plugged in. Backends powered by different third party libraries. The exact set of backends used in a particular build is decided by the person that … Continue reading Carving out msh3 →

--out-null is #curl's 270th command line option.

Discard all response output of a transfer silently. This is the more efficient
and portable version of

curl https://host.example -o /dev/null

The transfer is done in full, all data is received and checked, but the bytes are not written anywhere. --out-null is associated with a single URL. Use it once per URL when you use several URLs in a command line.