Legit.Show measured curl's Security frame at 100/100. Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure curl?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

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curl

Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.

68/100

7-Frame production-readiness — according to Legit.Show

Is curl production-ready?

Legit.Show measured curl at 68 out of 100 on its 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark (public-surface assessment). Its strongest frame is Security (100); its weakest is Privacy (0). Every frame is measured deterministically from the public surface — exactly what was observed is shown below.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 91/100
Accessibility — 78/100
Security — 100/100
Privacy — 0/100
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 15/100

What we measured

Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Lighthouse performance score 91/100 (188 ms to first byte).
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Developers · System administrators · DevOps engineers · Software applications · Embedded systems

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