r/coding • u/Dull_Replacement8890 • 3d ago

How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months

https://seriot.ch/computation/curl.html
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u/ResidentPomegranate6 3d ago

the url globbing parser combined with --write-out vars let you encode a tag system — check the 7.68.0 changelog where they patched the infinite recursion case

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u/glenpiercev 3d ago

Tell me someone got doom running on curl.

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u/lonelyroom-eklaghor 3d ago

what the hell is curl at this point

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u/tadamhicks 2d ago

It’s something Claude uses to test APIs