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cURL

GET request

curl http://example.com/posts/3

Show only head of the response

curl --head http://www.example.com/posts/3

Save the Output to output.txt file

curl -o output.txt http://www.example.com/posts/3

Download the Remote File

curl -O http://www.example.com/posts/3

Sending Post Requests:

curl --data "username=admin&password=admin" http://www.example.com/login
curl --d "username=admin&password=admin" http://www.example.com/login

Put requests:

curl -X PUT -d curl --data "title=change me" http://example.com/posts/3

Delete Request:

curl -X DELETE http://www.example.com/posts/3

Adding Authantication:

curl -u username:password http://www.example.com/posts/3

Curl and FTP

Uploading: curl -u account@website.com:password  -T local_file.txt ftp://ftp.example.com
Donwloading: curl -u account@website.com:password -O ftp://ftp.example.com/ftp_file.txt

Show req/res headers:

curl -i http://www.example.com/posts/3

Fallow Redirection:

curl -L http://www.example.com/posts/3

Output:

[verbose]          curl -v http://www.example.com/posts/3
[Too Verbose]      curl -vv http://www.example.com/posts/3
[silent]           curl -s http://www.example.com/posts/3

User Agent

curl -A "User Agent String" http://www.example.com/posts/3

Adding Cookies to Requests

curl -b name=value http://www.example.com/posts/3

Adding Cookies to Requests from file

curl -b cookies.txt http://www.example.com/posts/3

Adding Custom Headers to Requests

curl -H "Header:Value" http://www.example.com/posts/3

Use Compression [deflate/gzip]

curl --compressed http://www.example.com/posts/3

Save response to file

curl -o results.txt http://www.example.com/posts/3