[GTALUG] testing CURL without real server

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso at utoronto.ca
Wed Mar 29 08:31:28 EDT 2017


On 29/03/17 00:45, William Park via talk wrote:
> Question for curl expert...
> 
> I want to see what curl sends out, because I want to know what a proper
> HTTP request looks like.  Manpage says -v or --trace.  OK.  But, curl
> requires a real URL to connect to.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html describes the
range of what an HTTP 1.1 request can look like. e.g. OPTIONS, POST,
request headers for specifying content types etc.

Cheers, Jamon


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