A lightweight, VirusTotal -enabled command-line downloader. Knowing of no cURL -like tools that directly leverage the native Windows API, I thought it would be fun to make my own, and throw in quick automatic...
cURL Alternatives
cURL is described as 'Computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols with URL syntax: supporting FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE' and is a very popular HTTP Client in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to cURL for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Xfce apps. The best cURL alternative is Wget, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like cURL are aria2, HTTPie for Terminal, Transmit and xh.
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Httpiness is aimed to be a simple, straightforward HTTP client which minimizes time to configure, send, reconfigure and resend requests in order to maximize development efficiency.
RESTClient can be used to test variety of HTTP communications and RESTful webservices. Friendly GUI, rich functionalities.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
GitFTP-Deploy provides dead-simple FTP deployments for your smaller projects. While working with smaller sites you sometimes need a convenient way of deploying to a shared host where you don’t have access to SSH.
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AbsoluteTelnet / SSH is a secure flexible terminal client with rock-solid emulations that is suitable for developers, administrators, or deployment across the enterprise. It includes the industry standard SSH protocols to secure terminal session data across insecure environments...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Download files using curl or wget. This addon generates curl/wget commands that emulate the request as though it's coming from your browser allowing you to download protected files directly to a separate machine (e.g. server).
DloadBox is a complete download management platform combining aria2c, Caddy, ariaNG, RPC integration, and a Telegram bot. It offers a user-friendly web interface and remote control, enabling efficient and scalable management of downloads from anywhere.
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FTPManager Pro is a fully featured FTP client that allows you to access files on FTP servers. Directly access and manage remote files, edit text files. Stream videos and music to your iPhone/iPad. Transfer files between iPhone/iPad and FTP server.
FTPManager is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to cURL.
- FTPManager is Freemium and Proprietary
A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
This is a tool to manually explore and test HTTP REST webservices. Runs queries from a plain-text query sheet, displays results as a pretty-printed XML, JSON and even images.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- GNU Emacs
Gotcha HTTP Client is a lightweight http client that allows you to make requests and inspect responses.
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