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No, but a lot of people are writing them in telnet prompts and through netcat pipes.

Curl and wget are nearly as ubiquitous as netcat.

The older, HTTP/1.X compatible versions maybe. What happens after the web upgrades to 2.0? How long until compatible tools make it to default installs? Even now, OSX doesn't ship with wget.

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