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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How to Download Currency Rates Using HTTP

In 19 96 or so, i figured out that i wanted to provide currency translation or exchange service for the bot. I needed a little tool to download currency rates using h t p. So i looked around and found a little tool called h t pget that would do the job for me. And then we kept it as you or elget for a while. With we released version two and version three and called it yor elget during 19 97. Then again, i realized that whil calling it ural get doesn't reflect the nature of the tools is now. It wouldn't only do gets any more but also uploads and puts too. Soi wanted to rename it again

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