[GTALUG] testing CURL without real server

[Myles Braithwaite]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:45 AM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> 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.
>
> How can I run curl without specifying a real server/URL?  I can't find
> any "dry-run" or "fake" options.

I use <http://httpbin.org/> when I need to test an HTTP client and
what it's request is.