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0 pointskyberias11y ago0 comments

PHP applications may use libcurl when making outbound HTTP requests, right? That is only a small subset of these web sites. Most web sites just normally process HTTP requests.

This does not seem to explain the 1 billion users figure.

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anonfunction11y ago· 1 in thread

WordPress uses libcurl, according to a google search there are 74,652,825 sites using WordPress. How many unique visitors do you think these sites get? I would guess over a billion.

kyberiasOP11y ago

Oh come on, you just don't get it do you?

Just because Wordpress, which is a blog platform, uses libcurl for something you didn't even state (probably some outbound http stuff), doesn't mean it uses it to process most of the incoming requests for the millions of users.

We don't say Solitare is the most successful game ever just because it's installed with every copy of Windows.

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