That is precisely what the `--spider` option does. It sends a HEAD request.
Just like the similarly named option in Curl.
If you want it to be more explicit, you can use `--method=HEAD` instead. It
will still do the same thing though.
* Peng Yu [190812 20:56]:
> curl has the --head option. Is
curl has the --head option. Is there a reason why wget doesn't have it?
-I, --head
(HTTP FTP FILE) Fetch the headers only! HTTP-servers
feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header
of a document. When used on an
FTP or FILE file,
On 09.08.19 18:06, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to retrieve the response header instead of the response body.
>
> Does `wget -q -O /dev/null -S -o- url` still download the response
> body, but then dump it to /dev/null? Or wget is smart enough to know
> the destination is /dev/null so
Hi,
I just want to retrieve the response header instead of the response body.
Does `wget -q -O /dev/null -S -o- url` still download the response
body, but then dump it to /dev/null? Or wget is smart enough to know
the destination is /dev/null so that it will not download the response
body at
