You are correct; this gets brought up whenever I bring up the point. :)
I'm mostly putting it out there to make people realize that their pursuit of isolated library code is potentially missing out on obscurely documented reasons as to why one should consider the built-in APIs. I would say anything that might exist to cover this in Rust should not use `curl` under the hood either, though in practice I think that's unlikely to happen since Rust (IMO) has a stronger networking story.
I'm mostly putting it out there to make people realize that their pursuit of isolated library code is potentially missing out on obscurely documented reasons as to why one should consider the built-in APIs. I would say anything that might exist to cover this in Rust should not use `curl` under the hood either, though in practice I think that's unlikely to happen since Rust (IMO) has a stronger networking story.