kurly

kurly is an alternative to the widely popular curl program.

kurly is designed to operate in a similar manner to curl, with select features. Notably, kurly is not aiming for feature parity, but common flags and mechanisms particularly within the HTTP(S) realm are to be expected.

The current authors are not security experts, but want to contribute to the fledging movement of replacing key tools and services with equivalents based on modern and safe languages. We recognize that people are fallible (including ourselves), and for this reason believe we need all the help we can get.

Several languages exist which could be used to fulfill our goal, but in this case we picked Golang.

Installation

Pre-requisite: Golang version 1.7.4 or higher.

From source you can simply:

go get github.com/davidjpeacock/kurly

OS Package

kurly can be installed through package management systems on the following platforms:

• Arch Linux via Arch User Repos
  • For stable versions : pacaur -S kurly or yaourt -S kurly
  • For tip/development versions : pacaur -S kurly-git or yaourt -S kurly-git
• Linux, using the snap package - snap install kurly
• Linux, installing the snap package from within the desktop app store: go to https://snapcraft.io/kurly clicking the install button on this landing page will install Kurly.
• Linux x86 64 via RPM - yum install kurly-1.2.1-0.x86_64.rpm

If you're a package maintainer and you have prepared kurly for your OS of choice, please PR this section.

Binary download

Binaries are provided for the following platforms:

• Linux amd64
• Linux arm
• Mac OS X amd64
• Windows amd64

Usage

See kurly --help for usage information.

Examples

Verbose output, showing headers

$ kurly -v https://httpbin.org/ip
*   Trying 23.23.171.5...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to httpbin.org (23.23.171.5) port 443 (#0)
* APLN, server accepted to use http/1.1
* TLSv1.2, TLS Handshake finished
* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES-128-GCM-SHA256
* Server certificate:
*  subject: CN=httpbin.org
*  start date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:37:29 UTC
*  expire date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:37:29 UTC
*  issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
> GET /ip HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent [Kurly/1.2.1]
> Accept [*/*]
> Host [httpbin.org]
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server [meinheld/0.6.1]
< Content-Type [application/json]
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials [true]
< Content-Length [33]
< Via [1.1 vegur]
< Connection [keep-alive]
< Date [Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:18:11 GMT]
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin [*]
< X-Powered-By [Flask]
< X-Processed-Time [0]
[<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<] 33 B/33 B
{
  "origin": "43.122.23.223"
}

Download file, preserving remote filename, timestamp, and following redirects

$ kurly -R -O -L http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.7.1-amd64-netinst.iso
[<<<<<<                                ] 41.2 MB/260 MB

Upload file

$ kurly -T ~/Downloads/image.jpeg https://httpbin.org/put

Posting elements with -d

$ kurly -d bingo=bongo https://httpbin.org/post

Roadmap

Succinctly, we're planning to cover all curl-like features relevant to HTTP(S), and would love you to help.

Contributing

Bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests are all welcome. Thank you!

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details of how to work with us.

Maintainers

kurly is brought to you and maintained by:

• Akilan Elango
• Al S-M
• David J Peacock

License

kurly is Copyright (c) 2017-2018 David J Peacock and Al S-M, and is published under the Apache 2.0 license.