CURL implementation in Oracle

Have you ever wondered, you wish you had an Oracle CURL function, no problem, your wish is fulfilled.
PS: This will only work for text files and you can one for binary files too.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION CURL(i_URL VARCHAR2) RETURN CLOB IS
    -- HTTP Portion
    l_http_request   UTL_HTTP.req;
    l_http_response  UTL_HTTP.resp;
    l_clob           CLOB;
    l_text           VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
    -- Initialize the CLOB.
    DBMS_LOB.createtemporary(l_clob, FALSE);
    -- Make a HTTP request and get the response.
    l_http_request  := UTL_HTTP.begin_request(i_URL);
    l_http_response := UTL_HTTP.get_response(l_http_request);
    -- Copy the response into the CLOB.
    BEGIN
        LOOP
            UTL_HTTP.read_text(l_http_response, l_text, 32766);
            DBMS_LOB.writeappend (l_clob, LENGTH(l_text), l_text);
        END LOOP;
    EXCEPTION  WHEN UTL_HTTP.end_of_body THEN
        NULL;
    END;
    UTL_HTTP.END_RESPONSE(l_http_response);

    RETURN l_clob;

END CURL;
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