====== curl ======

[[https://curl.haxx.se/|curl]] is a tool for interacting with URLs on the command line, e.g.

<code bash>curl https://curl.haxx.se/</code>

returns the content of the curl website home page.

===== Options =====

Preceded by a hyphen, can be specified all together, e.g.

<code bash>curl -vdX POST https://curl.haxx.se/</code>

  ** ''v'' -- verbose 
  ** ''X <//method//>'' -- specify that request method ''<//method//>'' is to be used
  .. ''GET'' is the default method. ''curl -vX GET'' will tell you that ''X GET'' is unnecessary!
  ** ''d'' -- send a ''Content-Length: 0'' header
  .. By default this doesn't happen, so ''curl -X POST'' will return an HTTP 411 if the service doesn't support POST requests with an empty message body



{{tag> curl}}