Question

I am writing a Nautilus script that uses curl to GET/POST with a REST service.

Installing my script should be as simple as dropping a single file to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

My concern is that many computers might not have curl installed.
What would be a more widespread (should be installed by default on most distros) yet usable alternative to curl? Maybe wget or telnet?

Answer 1

Since the script is used under Linux (Nautilus), wget can be used in place of curl. Just change the command line arguments to the wget equivalents before running the script.