curlable

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A curlable URL is one where you can use the curl command line tool to request the URL via http(s), and receive back HTML with visible contents. [1]

curlability
cURL
js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn't Read
Why: https://twitter.com/voxpelli/status/1126374728812441600
- "Though: Remember that this is the Googlebot and we shouldn’t assume that competing crawlers are able to reach the same advanced level.
  
  Crawlers are an important part of the web and should remain easy to build.
  
  A reason why the web should stay “curlable”: https://indieweb.org/curlable" @voxpelli May 9, 2019
2017-05-24 Dieter Bohn: And now, a brief definition of the web: Linkable; agnostic to the client (archived)
- To count as being part of the web, your app or page must:
  1. Be linkable, and
  2. Allow any client to access it.
- But links aren't the complicated part; it's the part where your thing should allow any client to access it. For the web, that rule is pretty clear: whether you use Chrome or Safari or Edge or Opera or whatever, when you click a link or type in a URL, you get the page you wanted (more or less). Those pages are agnostic to the client.
- Via: 2022-03-20 Jim Nielsen: What is the Web? (archived), highlighting a URL you type into a browser may be only accessible by a specific client. Stressing the importance of being able to use curl or any client to access the contents.

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