Do any of the browsers for Linux (e.g. Firefox, Chrome) have a "verbose" mode that functions similarly to curl's?
One of the nice features of curl is its verbose mode. When enabled you can see what is sent to and received from a web server. For example, to see what headers are exchanged during a request to http://google.com: $ curl -v -s -I http://google.com 2>&1 > /dev/null | cat -n 1 * About to connect() to google.com port 80 (#0) 2 * Trying 74.125.95.105... connected 3 * Connected to google.com (74.125.95.105) port 80 (#0) 4 > HEAD / HTTP/1.1 5 > User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15 6 > Host: google.com 7 > Accept: */* 8 > 9 < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 10 < Location: http://www.google.com/ 11 < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 12 < Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:03:10 GMT 13 < Expires: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:03:10 GMT 14 < Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 15 < Server: gws 16 < Content-Length: 219 17 < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block 18 < 19 * Connection #0 to host google.com left intact 20 * Closing connection #0 Lines starting with a ">" show what curl sent to google. Lines starting with a "<" show what curl got back from the server. Lines starting with a "*" are descriptions of what curl is doing. Is there anything like that for any of the GUI browser? I haven't gotten any answers from my brief sessions with the Google. BTW, to have curl follow redirects, add a -L option.. Regards, - Robert -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
