Why not use curl? --Don Ellis
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]>wrote: > Why not use Firebug with Firefox? Or Developer Tools with Chrome? > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." > ---Alice Roosevelt Longworth > > 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 > -- 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
