curl cheat sheet

 Curl, the wget with steroids. https://curl.se/

1. response headers

curl -I http://localhost:8081/customers

HTTP/1.1 302
Set-Cookie: KC_REDIRECT=/customers; Path=/; HttpOnly
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
X-Frame-Options: DENY
Location: http://localhost:8081/sso/login
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 15:38:57 GMT

2.  gzip call

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -I http://127.0.0.1:8080/example/fourkb 

Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://127.0.0.1:8080/fourkb -o four.json.gz

curl -v --compressed
-verbose

3.  curl post

curl -k --max-time 30 -X GET 'https://10.10.10.31:8080/rest/accounts?user=test&password=test&channel=1&client-ID=1020'
 --request GET
 
 
4. body:

curl -k --request POST 'https://10.10.10.31:8080/rest/num-accounts' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"user":{"user":"testuser","password":"welcome1","request-channel":1},"client-ID":"12345"}'

-d '{"query":{"match_all":{}}}'
-d, --data <data>


5. ssl

to avoid self-signed cert:

-k

curl --cacert cacert.pem https://self-signed.badssl.com


6. cookie

--cookie "jsessionid=123"

7. timeout

--max-time 30


8. header

curl -H "Authorization: Basic YXBpdXNlcjphcGlwd2Q=" http://devweb.cl/status


9.  basic user?

--basic --user "redemption-br:GUkboMIZ"

 
10. for brackets

curl -g

otherwise:
curl: (3) bad range in URL position 47:

11. dowloand

-O -J

curl -k -O -J https://www.ejemplo.cl/file.txt