diff --git a/run/fetchurl.run b/run/fetchurl.run
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index fcec557..0000000
--- a/run/fetchurl.run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-#
-# \brief  Test of 'fetchurl
-# \author Emery Hemingway
-# \date   2016-06-05
-#
-
-set build_components {
-	core init
-	app/fetchurl
-	drivers/nic
-	drivers/timer
-}
-
-source ${genode_dir}/repos/base/run/platform_drv.inc
-append_platform_drv_build_components
-
-build $build_components
-
-create_boot_directory
-
-append config {
-<config verbose="yes">
-	<parent-provides>
-		<service name="CPU"/>
-		<service name="IO_MEM"/>
-		<service name="IO_PORT"/>
-		<service name="IRQ"/>
-		<service name="LOG"/>
-		<service name="PD"/>
-		<service name="RAM"/>
-		<service name="RM"/>
-		<service name="ROM"/>
-	</parent-provides>
-	<default caps="100"/>
-	<default-route>
-		<any-service> <parent/> <any-child/> </any-service>
-	</default-route>}
-
-append_platform_drv_config
-
-append config {
-	<start name="timer">
-		<resource name="RAM" quantum="1M"/>
-		<provides> <service name="Timer"/> </provides>
-	</start>
-	<start name="nic_drv">
-		<resource name="RAM" quantum="4M"/>
-		<provides> <service name="Nic"/> </provides>
-	</start>
-	<start name="fetchurl" caps="500">
-		<resource name="RAM" quantum="8M"/>
-		<config>
-			<vfs> <dir name="dev"> <log/> <null/> </dir> </vfs>
-			<libc stdout="/dev/log" stderr="/dev/log"/>
-			<fetch url="http://genode.org/about/LICENSE" path="/dev/log"/>
-		</config>
-	</start>
-</config>
-}
-
-install_config $config
-
-# generic modules
-set boot_modules {
-	core init ld.lib.so
-	curl.lib.so
-	fetchurl
-	libc.lib.so vfs.lib.so
-	libc.lib.so vfs.lib.so
-	libcrypto.lib.so
-	libm.lib.so
-	libssh.lib.so
-	libssl.lib.so
-	lwip_legacy.lib.so
-	nic_drv
-	timer
-	zlib.lib.so
-}
-
-# platform-specific modules
-append_platform_drv_boot_modules
-
-build_boot_image $boot_modules
-
-append qemu_args " -nographic -net nic,model=e1000 -net user"
-
-run_genode_until {child "fetchurl" exited with exit value 0} 120
diff --git a/src/app/fetchurl/README b/src/app/fetchurl/README
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index 740bcf8..0000000
--- a/src/app/fetchurl/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-A small frontend to the libcURL library.
-
-Configuration
--------------
-
-!<config>
-! <libc stdout="/dev/log" stderr="/dev/log">
-!  <vfs>
-!   <dir name="dev"> <jitterentropy name="random"/> <log/> </dir>
-!  </vfs>
-! </libc>
-! <fetch url="http://genode.org/about/LICENSE" path="LICENSE"/>
-!</config>
-
-Optionally, you can use a proxy:
-
-! <fetch url="http://genode.org/about/LICENSE" path="LICENSE"
-!        proxy="sock5://10.0.0.1:9050 />
diff --git a/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc b/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
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index 7860ef0..0000000
--- a/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,161 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * \brief  Native fetchurl utility for Nix
- * \author Emery Hemingway
- * \date   2016-03-08
- */
-
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2016 Genode Labs GmbH
- *
- * This file is part of the Genode OS framework, which is distributed
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
- */
-
-/* Genode includes */
-#include <timer_session/connection.h>
-#include <os/path.h>
-#include <base/attached_rom_dataspace.h>
-#include <libc/component.h>
-#include <base/log.h>
-
-/* cURL includes */
-#include <curl/curl.h>
-
-/* Libc includes */
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-
-struct Stats
-{
-	Timer::Connection &timer;
-	unsigned long     next = 0;
-	unsigned long     remain = 0;
-	char       const *url;
-
-	Stats(Timer::Connection &t, char const *u)
-	: timer(t), url(u) { }
-};
-
-static size_t write_callback(char   *ptr,
-                             size_t  size,
-                             size_t  nmemb,
-                             void   *userdata)
-{
-	int *fd = (int*)userdata;
-	return write(*fd, ptr, size*nmemb);
-}
-
-
-int progress_callback(void   *clientp,
-                      double dltotal,
-                      double dlnow,
-                      double ultotal,
-                      double ulnow)
-{
-	Stats *stats = (Stats*)clientp;
-
-	unsigned long now = stats->timer.elapsed_ms();
-	unsigned long remain = dltotal-dlnow;
-
-	if ((now > stats->next) && (remain != stats->remain)) {
-		stats->next = now + 1000;
-		stats->remain = remain;
-		Genode::log(stats->url, ": ", remain, " bytes remain");
-	}
-	return CURLE_OK;
-}
-
-void Libc::Component::construct(Libc::Env &env)
-{
-	Genode::Attached_rom_dataspace config(env, "config");
-
-	Timer::Connection timer(env);
-	/* wait for DHCP */
-	timer.msleep(4000);
-
-	Genode::String<256> url;
-	Genode::Path<256>   path;
-	CURLcode res = CURLE_OK;
-
-	curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT);
-
-	Genode::Xml_node config_node = config.xml();
-
-	bool verbose = config_node.attribute_value("verbose", false);
-
-	config_node.for_each_sub_node("fetch", [&] (Genode::Xml_node node) {
-
-		if (res != CURLE_OK) return;
-		try {
-			node.attribute("url").value(&url);
-			node.attribute("path").value(path.base(), path.capacity());
-		} catch (...) { Genode::error("error reading 'fetch' node"); return; }
-
-		char const *out_path = path.base();
-
-		int fd = open(out_path, O_CREAT | O_RDWR);
-		if (fd == -1) {
-			switch (errno) {
-			case EACCES:
-				Genode::error("permission denied at ", out_path); break;
-			case EEXIST:
-				Genode::error(out_path, " already exists"); break;
-			case EISDIR:
-				Genode::error(out_path, " is a directory"); break;
-			case ENOSPC:
-				Genode::error("cannot create ", out_path, ", out of space"); break;
-			}
-			env.parent().exit(errno);
-			return;
-		}
-
-		CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
-		if (!curl) {
-			Genode::error("failed to initialize libcurl");
-			res = CURLE_FAILED_INIT;
-			return;
-		}
-
-		Stats stats(timer, url.string());
-
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.string());
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
-
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, verbose);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, true);
-
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &fd);
-
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress_callback);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA, &stats);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
-
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
-		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
-
-		/* check for optional proxy configuration */
-		try {
-			Genode::String<256> proxy;
-			node.attribute("proxy").value(&proxy);
-			curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROXY, proxy.string());
-		} catch (...) { }
-
-		Libc::with_libc([&]() {
-			res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
-		});
-		close(fd);
-		if (res != CURLE_OK)
-			Genode::error(curl_easy_strerror(res));
-
-		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
-	});
-
-	curl_global_cleanup();
-
-	Genode::warning("SSL certificates not verified");
-
-	env.parent().exit(res ^ CURLE_OK);
-}
-
diff --git a/src/app/fetchurl/target.mk b/src/app/fetchurl/target.mk
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index cce4d49..0000000
--- a/src/app/fetchurl/target.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-TARGET = fetchurl
-LIBS += curl lwip libc_lwip libc_lwip_nic_dhcp libc
-SRC_CC = component.cc
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