Curl is the default on most systems I've used. The only place wget seems to be a default is on Ubuntu (and probably some other flavors of Linux).
But most places where I need such a tool: My desktop (Mac), the load-balancers (OpenBSD), the database servers (FreeBSD), the hypervisors (SmartOS), the NFS servers (FreeBSD), basically all the infrastructurey stuff, curl is the default. I wouldn't swear to it, but I don't think wget is installed on most of those systems.
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Curl is the default on most systems I've used. The only place wget seems to be a default is on Ubuntu (and probably some other flavors of Linux).
But most places where I need such a tool: My desktop (Mac), the load-balancers (OpenBSD), the database servers (FreeBSD), the hypervisors (SmartOS), the NFS servers (FreeBSD), basically all the infrastructurey stuff, curl is the default. I wouldn't swear to it, but I don't think wget is installed on most of those systems.