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Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

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545 points mmh0000 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bossyTeacher ◴[03 Apr 25 17:39 UTC] No.43573002[source]▶
Cool tool but it shouldn't matter whether the client is a browser or not. I feel sad that we need such a tool in the real world
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jimt1234 ◴[03 Apr 25 18:22 UTC] No.43573475[source]▶
About six months ago I went to a government auction site that required Internet Explorer. Yes, Internet Explorer. The site was active, too; the auction data was up-to-date. I added a user-agent extension in Chrome, switched to IE, retried and it worked; all functionality on the site was fine. So yeah, I was both sad and annoyed. My guess is this government office paid for a website 25 years ago and it hasn't been updated since.
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jorvi ◴[03 Apr 25 19:42 UTC] No.43574418[source]▶
In South Korea, ActiveX is still required for many things like banking and government stuff. So they're stuck with both IE and the gaping security hole in it that is ActiveX.
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asddubs ◴[04 Apr 25 03:13 UTC] No.43577975[source]▶
is this still true? I know this was the case in the past, but even in 2025?
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1. kijin ◴[04 Apr 25 16:00 UTC] No.43584326[source]▶
Not really. You can access any Korean bank or government website using Chrome, and they actually recommend Chrome these days.

They still want to install a bunch of programs on your computer, though. It's more or less the same stuff that used to be written as ActiveX extensions, but rewritten using modern browser APIs. :(