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Babak K. Shandiz
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Living in the Shell #16; curl (HTTP/S Client) (Part 1)

#productivity #linux #bash #devops

curl 🌐

Makes requests in various protocols, including (but not limited to) HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/FTPS.

Make a simple GET request 

curl https://google.com
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<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

Simple GET request with following redirects -L 

curl -L https://google.com
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Write response to a file -o 

curl -L https://google.com -o content.html
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Include response headers -i 

curl -i -L https://google.com
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HTTP/2 301 
location: https://www.google.com/
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:45:16 GMT
expires: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:45:16 GMT
cache-control: public, max-age=2592000
server: gws
content-length: 220
x-xss-protection: 0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
...

Request via a HTTP proxy server -x 

curl -L https://google.com -x proxy-server:port
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Request via a SOCKS proxy server --socks 

curl -L https://google.com --socks proxy-server:port
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