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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

..
Apr 182011
 

Show HTTP response header using curl

Answer:

To show the response of HTTP request to a specific server, you can use the "curl -i" command.

Example:

#  curl -i "http://www.example.com"
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://www.iana.org/domains/example/
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0

Update: Thanks Robin Clowers for the update.