I wrote a ~2KB executable file HTTP file downloader without Libc

What it does

hfile is a maximum-tiny utility to download files over plain HTTP and write the response body to stdout, built for cases where you need a simple fetcher with no libc, no extra dependencies, and no unnecessary features: run it like `hfile http://IP/path > file`, for IPv6 use brackets `hfile 'http://[IPv6]/path' > file`, and for virtual-host sites without DNS use the `IP|HOST` mode — `hfile 'http://IP/path|example.com' > file` (it connects to the IP but sends the Host header as HOST); it works like a micro wget but HTTP-only: it sends a single GET, waits for `\r\n\r\n`, skips headers, and streams the body to stdout; I made it because I wanted a lightweight downloader for systems where…from github.com

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