Uses for cURL
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Uses for cURL
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Re: Uses for cURL
#2I'm sure there must be other sites documenting this too, but that's a very well written and prioritized bit of documentation - nicely done.
Your echo service is pretty nifty too.
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#3I knew 8 of the 9, but the one I didn't (testing virtual hosts) was worth the cost of reading the entire article. Thanks.
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#4This can be combined well with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762444 :)
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#5> If you only care about headers use the -I flag and the response body will be hidden
That is actually wrong. The -I flag set the request method to HEAD. So in some cases it will return different headers than a normal get request (and some servers don't implement HEAD responses at all).
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#6Nice. I like the way examples were constructed.
BTW, here are some more cURL tips I noted down a while back, which I found to be useful for daily work. - http://laktek.com/2012/03/12/curl-tips-for-daily-use/
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#7> If you only care about headers use the -I flag and the response body will be hidden That is actually wrong. The -I flag set the request method to HEAD. So in some cases it will return different headers than a normal get request (and some servers don't implement HEAD responses at all).
Very true, but let's not forget that [0]
> The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response.
and that
> The metainformation contained in the HTTP headers in response to a HEAD request SHOULD be identical to the information sent in response to a GET request.
Re: Uses for cURL
#8> If you only care about headers use the -I flag and the response body will be hidden That is actually wrong. The -I flag set the request method to HEAD. So in some cases it will return different headers than a normal get request (and some servers don't implement HEAD responses at all).
Ah, great catch. Added a note about having to specify the method explicitly / that -I uses HEAD implicitly. Thanks!
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#9I would strongly suggest HTTPie for the majority of these tasks: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
Re: Uses for cURL
#10I would strongly suggest HTTPie for the majority of these tasks: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
May I ask why? What benefits does HTTPie have?