Hacker News: bagder

New comment by bagder in "Curl is just the hobby"

bagder — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:15:08 +0000

vodafone has been blocking my site daniel.haxx.se for several years.

Discussed on this very site for example back in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248250

New comment by bagder in "Deleting System32\curl.exe"

bagder — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:57:52 +0000

Vodafone... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/02/considered-18/

New comment by bagder in "Increased CVE Activity in Curl?"

bagder — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:32:51 +0000

I only record the introduction commit for security flaws as they are rare and important enough to give that level of attention. And that's not a mandatory or required step in our process, I do it mostly as a service for users and to satisfy my own curiosity.

Our process for handling security problems in curl is documented here: https://curl.se/dev/secprocess.html

New comment by bagder in "Increased CVE Activity in Curl?"

bagder — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:58:05 +0000

The author (me) did get a visa, after a mere 937 days: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days...

New comment by bagder in "The QUIC API OpenSSL will not provide"

bagder — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:22:10 +0000

That's fairly inaccurate. QuicTLS is pretty much exactly what we're all waiting for. That is OpenSSL + PR8797.

New comment by bagder in "“I will slaughter you”"

bagder — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:53:18 +0000

Daniel here.

Thanks everyone for the positiveness and expression of appreciation I've sensed here. The threat has been reported to the police and I'll move on. I love you all. Now I'll go back and continue working on curl.

New comment by bagder in "Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised"

bagder — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:43:06 +0000

Account restored!

New comment by bagder in "Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised"

bagder — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:55:47 +0000

While I am disconnected from twitter, you can always reach me at:

Mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social

Keybase: https://keybase.io/bagder

IRC: #curl on freenode

Email: daniel@haxx.se

website: https://daniel.haxx.se/

New comment by bagder in "Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised"

bagder — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:29:51 +0000

I rather refrain from speculating as I truly have no idea! As I describe in my blog post, I just got an email saying "someone" had logged into my account from a new device and then I was kicked out (as that user then changed password and email presumably).

New comment by bagder in "Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised"

bagder — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:18:42 +0000

can I just mention that my twitter handle is 'bagder' - as in a dyslexic animal! =)

New comment by bagder in "Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet"

bagder — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:23:51 +0000

Tadaa: curl already supports --parallel to download many URLs simultaneously...

New comment by bagder in "Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet"

bagder — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:47:27 +0000

"For some years" sure, but that's ancient history.

curl has verified the server certificates by default since version 7.10, shipped in October 2002.

Help curl: the user survey 2020

bagder — Mon, 18 May 2020 21:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/05/18/help-curl-the-user-survey-2020/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228603

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Curl Cheat Sheet Refresh

bagder — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/20/curl-cheat-sheet-refresh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bagder in "Curl is 21 years old"

bagder — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:24:57 +0000

The twitter post just links to my blog post "Happy 21st, curl": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/03/20/happy-21st-curl/

New comment by bagder in "I’m leaving Mozilla"

bagder — Sun, 18 Nov 2018 23:03:01 +0000

Thank you! I will certainly do what I can to not make this little change affect my curl commitment in a negative manner...

New comment by bagder in "Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine"

bagder — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:01:13 +0000

Thanks! Captive portals are indeed truly complicated beasts to handle and they offer challenging obstacles for browsers (and others). We keep working on trying to improve how Firefox detects and works with them.

New comment by bagder in "Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine"

bagder — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:45:37 +0000

... that's why the article you're commenting on mentions SNI and that we hope to address that too (but separately) going forward!

New comment by bagder in "Inside Firefox’s DNS-over-HTTPS engine"

bagder — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 06:14:35 +0000

"I better speculate on the reason here because surely Daniel is part of a conspiracy meant destroy the browsing experience of millions"

or...

It could be prepared for when the user gets asked what they want and then Firefox can remember an explicit "no" as compared to not selection ever made.

/ Daniel (author of the blog post)

New comment by bagder in "Twenty years, 1998 – 2018"

bagder — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:04:51 +0000

c-ares is not standard because making a drop-in replacement for the regular stock name resolver function is really hard and c-ares is not 100% there. A c-ares powered libcurl fails to resolve some host names in some setups that otherwise work with the stock resolver (and thus in other apps/libraries). That's why the threaded stock resolver is the most popular resolver backend of curl/libcurl these days...