cURL is pretty much the universal go-to tool for testing HTTP responses from the command line. If you’re not already familiar with it, here are a few handy things you can use it for.
Checking Headers
You can use cURL to see the headers sent in a request. I use this all the time to see if the headers I’m trying to send in a script are working right.
$ curl -I http://www.google.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:45:58 GMT Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 (...)
Sending POST Requests
I was working on a project recently that involved receiving POST requests from a client script running on another server. Since there was no convenient HTML form to use to repeatedly test changes made to the API, I ended up using cURL. Sending POST data is a simple matter of passing an argument that looks something like a query string.
curl http://example.org/url-to-recieve-post-request -d "name=Gandalf&type=wizard";
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