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--- tips:linux:httppost [2009/06/08 15:46] – created erik
+++ tips:linux:httppost [2012/06/02 13:09] (current) – erik
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+====== Quickly Send a HTTP POST Request ======
+Have you ever wanted to quickly send a POST request to a HTTP server? It's pretty easy to do using curl.
+For example to send XML via a POST request, you could use the following:
+  curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml" --data "<?xml version="1.0"?>...." http://www.foo.com/
+I use this method for testing almost every day. Saves a lot of time.
+Another curl command I use often is:
+  curl -I http://www.example.com/
+to get a HEAD request.
+And:
+  curl --header "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://www.foo.com/ | gunzip
+to get the compressed request, or to verify that the request is compressed:
+  curl -I -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" http://www.foo.com/
+You can also pipe the resulting page to vim, using:
+  curl http://www.foo.com/ | vim -
+use:
+  curl -i http://www.foo.com/ | vim -
+to also view the headers.