Getting only response header from HTTP POST using curl
One can request only the headers using HTTP HEAD, as option -I in curl(1) .
$ curl -I /
Lengthy HTML response bodies are a pain to get in command-line, so I'd like to get only the header as feedback for my POST requests. However, HEAD and POST are two different methods.
How do I get curl to display only response headers to a POST request?
-D, --dump-header <file>
Write the protocol headers to the specified file.
This option is handy to use when you want to store the headers
that a HTTP site sends to you. Cookies from the headers could
then be read in a second curl invocation by using the -b,
--cookie option! The -c, --cookie-jar option is however a better
way to store cookies.
and
-S, --show-error
When used with -s, --silent, it makes curl show an error message if it fails.
and
-L/--location
(HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response
code), this option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with -i/--include or -I/--head, headers from all requested
pages will be shown. When authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial host. If a redirect takes curl to a different
host, it won’t be able to intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change this. You can limit the amount of redirects to
follow by using the --max-redirs option.
When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP
response was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request using the same unmodified
method.
from the man page. so
curl -sSL -D - www.acooke.org -o /dev/null
follows redirects, dumps the headers to stdout and sends the data to /dev/null (that's a GET, not a POST, but you can do the same thing with a POST - just add whatever option you're already using for POSTing data)
note the - after the -D which indicates that the output "file" is stdout.
The other answers require the response body to be downloaded. But there's a way to make a POST request that will only fetch the header:
curl -s -I -X POST http://www.google.com
An -I by itself performs a HEAD request which can be overridden by -X POST to perform a POST (or any other) request and still only get the header data.
For long response bodies (and various other similar situations), the solution I use is always to pipe to less , so
curl -i https://api.github.com/users | less
or
curl -s -D - https://api.github.com/users | less
will do the job.
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