What is HTTP 406 Error? (Not Acceptable)
HTTP status code 406 generally means wrong Accept- header family configuration. Here's how to prevent it.
cURL is a leading HTTP client tool that is used to create HTTP connections. It is powered by a popular C language library libcurl
which implements most of the modern HTTP protocol. This includes the newest HTTP features and versions like HTTP3 and IPv6 support and all proxy features.
When it comes to web scraping cURL is the leading library for creating HTTP connections as it supports important features used in web scraping like:
It is used by many web scraping tools and libraries. Many popular HTTP libraries are using libcurl behind the scenes:
However, since cURL is written in C and is incredibly complicated it can be difficult to use in some languages so often loses out to native libraries (like httpx in Python).
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