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cURL vs Cyberduck: What are the differences?
Developers describe cURL as "Command Line Tool and Library for Transferring Data With URLs". Used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. It is also used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, and is the internet transfer backbone for thousands of software applications affecting billions of humans daily. On the other hand, Cyberduck is detailed as "An open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage". It is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
cURL and Cyberduck can be primarily classified as "File Transfer" tools.
cURL and Cyberduck are both open source tools. It seems that cURL with 16.7K GitHub stars and 3.63K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Cyberduck with 752 GitHub stars and 93 GitHub forks.
Pros of cURL
- Quickly view HTTP headers1