A swiss army knife is a single tool that contains a number of other smaller tools that you can use in many different circumstances.
Curl is a metaphorical “swiss army knife” for connecting to computers. There are many protocols to connect to different kinds of computers running different kinds of software and curl allows one to easily connect to many of them.
Think of a protocol like a language; if you just blurt out sounds no one will understands, but if you make sounds that correspond to an already agreed upon meaning, it becomes communications.
The same thing is true for sending 1s and 0s; they are meaningless unless the other end understands them and a protocol is “the agreement” both ends use to communicate.
Different federated platforms talking to each other will look like this sometimes. In this case it’s a microblogging platform talking to a threaded conversation platform. It’s just a quirk of federation in general.
@[email protected] l often come across this phrase, Swiss Army knife… What does it mean actually ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife
A swiss army knife is a single tool that contains a number of other smaller tools that you can use in many different circumstances.
Curl is a metaphorical “swiss army knife” for connecting to computers. There are many protocols to connect to different kinds of computers running different kinds of software and curl allows one to easily connect to many of them.
@[email protected] thanks. I really need to understand what protocols actually are.
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Think of a protocol like a language; if you just blurt out sounds no one will understands, but if you make sounds that correspond to an already agreed upon meaning, it becomes communications.
The same thing is true for sending 1s and 0s; they are meaningless unless the other end understands them and a protocol is “the agreement” both ends use to communicate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_protocol
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@[email protected] thanks 😊 😊 😊
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Why?
A protocol is like a language. It just lets two computers know how to talk to each other. That’s it.
@[email protected] wow… But l’m on my android phone…
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Wikipedia works on phones. I’m on an Android phone. Why do you keep pinging that person? This looks like harassment/trolling.
Edit: are you confused because I said “computers?” Your phone is a computer.
Different federated platforms talking to each other will look like this sometimes. In this case it’s a microblogging platform talking to a threaded conversation platform. It’s just a quirk of federation in general.
@[email protected] probably an example regarding how curl works ??🤓🤓🤓
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