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Re:“I Could Rewrite Curl” by WORMS_EAT_WORMS on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:53AM (#27221113)
As someone who fell into the category of:

> "Most folks I know don't even know about the other protocols curl supports and have only interfaced with curl through its http."

Just curious if you could elaborate on this one specifically and why you found it especially interesting.

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Re:“I Could Rewrite Curl” by mckirk on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:11AM (#27221305)
SMB is... not very straightforward. I needed to reverse engineer it once to write an exploit, and it's difficult to properly formulate even basic requests, let alone the more complex stuff the protocol supports.
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