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Ar-ruk Kachen
Ar-ruk Kachen

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Curl Command for Developer

#curl #cheatsheet #linux

This cheatsheet was collected famous CURL command for Software Developer. Exactly it's easy for checking and testing communicate between frontend and backend

if you want to see more information or option. Please see in : Curl man page

1.Request with set value specific header 

curl --header "X-MyHeader: 123" URL
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2.Request with using cookie 

curl -v --cookie "COOKIEKEY=VALUE" URL
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3.Request with method and body 

curl -X HTTPMETHOD -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key1":"value"}' URL
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4.Request with Form-data 

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" -F "key1=val1" URL
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5.Request with Post File 

curl -X POST -F 'file=@/file-path.csv' URL
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6.Get HTTP Status Only 

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" URL
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7.Get Response Header only 

curl -I https://www.google.com
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8.Get Response value of specific header

(Example: for get content-type header)

curl -sI URL | tr -d '\r' | sed -En 's/^<u>content-type</u>: (.*)/\1/p'
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