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?
>
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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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