Curl alternative on windows to get header information

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wget/cURL alternative native to Windows?

Is there any tool (command line tool preferred) to get the HTTP request header information on Windows machine like Curl does on Linux?

Stan

Posted 2011-04-12T18:27:33.120

Reputation: 6 535

Answers

not really. However, you can use curl under cygwin on windows, or even use the native dos/windows clients to suit your needs. http://curl.haxx.se/download.html

TheCompWiz

Posted 2011-04-12T18:27:33.120

Reputation: 9 161

For simple operations, you can use a simple telnet. And write the HTTP protocol by hand. Oh the joys of plain-text protocols :)

telnet google.com 80

Trying 209.85.149.105...
Connected to google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: google.com

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:58:48 GMT
Expires: Thu, 12 May 2011 20:58:48 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000
Server: gws
Content-Length: 219
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>
^C
Connection closed by foreign host.

Holger Just

Posted 2011-04-12T18:27:33.120

Reputation: 678