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purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment(purl.dev)
17 points by bpierre 5 hours ago | 3 comments
connorgurney 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It only took us 29 years but HTTP 402 Payment Required might finally mean something on a wider scale…

acheong08 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A couple questions:

- The default seems to make the payment without confirmation. What stops an endpoint from changing payment amount between an inspect request and the actual request?

- Will adoption of this payment protocol ever grow large enough for anyone to implement this on either the client or server?

- Bots have more of a financial incentive to crawl sites than a human. I doubt this will actually stop anything

- I see a AGENTS.md. How much of this is vibe coded? It's near impossible to get a sense of the care taken to review LLM output. Hard to trust with money.

gforce_de an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

  user@NAS:~$ curl -fsSl https://www.purl.dev/install.sh | bash
  ...
  purl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by purl)
  
  user@NAS:~$ uname -a
  Linux NAS 6.1.0-43-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.162-1 (2026-02-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux