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curl - transfer a URL Synopsis: curl [options] [URL...] Command line internet/network loader tool and ajax test tool. Read the contents of a URL, dump the results to the stdout. To return the entire page to stdout: curl www.google.com To simulate wget by downloading a file at a specific web address, use the -O flag: curl -O www.example.com/img.gif To see if a site is alive, just get the headers (--head or -I): curl --head www.yahoo.com A live response returns status, cookies, content length, etc. To send custom headers (anything you want!) use (--header or -H): curl --header "User-Agent: something-special" example.com curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" example.com To retrieve data with POST: curl -d "name1=a;name" www.google.com To simulate a form post: curl -F "variable=value;variable2=value2" http://localhost:3000/your/url This is helpful to get specific javascript back: curl -H "Accept: application/json" -i -X GET http://localhost:3000/projects/3 Delete via rest (or set other http methods with the -X flag): curl -X DELETE http://localhost:3000/projects/1 Authenticate with username and password (http-basic if not specified otherwise): curl -u user:password http://example.com/whatever Save cookies to a file: curl -c cookies.txt \ -F "username=meepo" -F "password=curiass" \ http://example.com/login ... and pass the saved cookies back to the server: curl -b cookies.txt http://example.com/action Alternatively you can pass in cookies as key value pairs: curl -b key=value http://example.com/action Or using the custom header option: curl -H 'Cookie: key=value' http://example.com/action The view the man page: curl --manual | less Related programs: wget

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