Libcurl to big for tiny flash router (4MB)

[nstrelow]

Curl is an awesome tool. Sadly all the dependencies needed, make it so I cannot build an image anymore which is under 4MB, because of a few 200KB. Even throwing out ipv6, opkg and other unneeded things, I could not get it to compile below 4MB.

I will try to solve it myself by replacing the curl calls with something else. I hope that uclient-fetch will support the calls, as this is included in most builds and is suppost to be "a tiny wget replacement"

[mueslo]

If you manage to get it working, feel free to submit a PR. I'm always interested in reducing the footprint.

[nstrelow]

And no, sadly uclient-fetch does not support headers.
At least it only has these options:

Options:
        -4                              Use IPv4 only
        -6                              Use IPv6 only
        -q                              Turn off status messages
        -O <file>                       Redirect output to file (use "-" for stdout)
        -P <dir>                        Set directory for output files
        --user=<user>                   HTTP authentication username
        --password=<password>           HTTP authentication password
        --user-agent|-U <str>           Set HTTP user agent
        --post-data=STRING              use the POST method; send STRING as the data
        --spider|-s                     Spider mode - only check file existence
        --timeout=N|-T N                Set connect/request timeout to N seconds
        --proxy=on|off|-Y on|off        Enable/disable env var configured proxy

[nstrelow]

Netcat is the way to go!
It is so bare, but will manage exactly what we need and is already included.
https://arpitbhayani.me/techie/rest-the-hard-way-with-netcat.html

Will make a PR if I find the time