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cURL (pronounced curl) stands for client for URL. It transfers data from a url, which you can then do things with.
Why would they call it that when it's not a client for all urls? It's more like httpc
What URLs is it not a client for? As far as I understand it will pull whatever data is presented by whatever URL. cURL doesn't really care about protocol being http, you can use it with FTP as well, and I haven't tested it yet but now that I'm curious I wanna see if it works for SMB
I'm not arguing it should, but an easy example of a scheme it doesn't support is mailto. However I was surprised at the list it does support including mqtt, imap, and pop3.