Why not use Firebug with Firefox? Or Developer Tools with Chrome?
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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