Dec 092012
How to only show respond header with curl command
Answer:
Sometimes the respond body is huge and you maybe only interested in knowing the headers only, then you can try:
# curl -v http://www.google.com -o /dev/null
..
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.4 (universal-apple-darwin11.0) libcurl/7.21.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8r zlib/1.2.5
> Host: www.google.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
< Location: http://www.google.com.hk/
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
< Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:57:43 GMT
< Server: gws
< Content-Length: 222
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
..
