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Commands tagged http

Terminal - Commands tagged http - 11 results

curl -s "$URL" |wc -c

2011-07-18 15:47:57

User: Mozai

Functions: wc

Tags: size curl http

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Retrieve the size of a file on a server

Downloads the entire file, but http servers don't always provide the optional 'Content-Length:' header, and ftp/gopher/dict/etc servers don't provide a filesize header at all.

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curl -Is google.com | grep Date

2011-06-24 11:19:47

User: d3Xt3r

Functions: grep

Tags: http date time

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Displays the current time using HTTP

This command will show the current GMT time using HTTP. This might be useful if you just want to know what's the current human-readable and accurate-enough time, without changing the system time, using a simple command that would work regardless of the availability of NTP.

Note: To get a quicker and more accurate response, replace google.com with your local NTP server.

Also can be used as an alternative to the "htpdate" program:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/668/set-your-computers-clock-using-http-and-htp-http-time-protocol-when-ntpsntp-is-not-available

tshark -i en1 -z proto,colinfo,http.request.uri,http.request.uri -R http.request.uri

2011-04-05 14:18:35

User: lele

Tags: http wireshark tshark

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trace http requests with tshark

trace http requests on the specified interface.

uses the amazing tshark tool (http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html)

curl -I http://localhost

2011-01-02 14:19:30

User: mniskin

Tags: curl HEAD http

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Send an http HEAD request w/curl

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for file in `cat urls.txt`; do echo -n "$file " >> log.txt; curl --head $file >> log.txt ; done

2010-10-19 02:54:13

User: Glutnix

Functions: echo file

Tags: status log curl HEAD http files list download http_code url

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Get all the HTTP HEAD responses from a list of urls in a file

urls.txt should have a fully qualified url on each line

prefix with

rm log.txt;

to clear the log

change curl command to

curl --head $file | head -1 >> log.txt

to just get the http status

curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

2010-07-30 23:20:50

User: denzuko

Functions: head ssh

Tags: ssh streaming curl mp3 http radio xml xmlstarlet ssh tunnel mpg321 podcast xpath xquery 2600

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Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can.

This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption.

tcpdump -i eth0 port 80 -w -

2010-07-14 04:17:18

User: freestyler

Functions: tcpdump

Tags: http

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view http traffic

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curl -s -L --head -w "%{http_code}\n" URL | tail -n1

2010-04-02 19:42:14

User: tokland

Functions: tail

Tags: curl HEAD http http_code

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Get the state (HTTP code) of a resource from its URL

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curl -s "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json?count=5" | python -m json.tool | less -R

This is sample output - yours may be different.

[
    {
        "d": "22 Useful Online Chart & Graph Generators | Tools", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "charts", 
            "tools", 
            "chart", 
            "generator", 
            "graph", 
            "online", 
            "graphs", 
            "web", 
            "design", 
            "webdesign"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/22-useful-chart-graph-diagram-generators/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Official Google Data APIs Blog: Bringing OpenID and OAuth Together", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "openid", 
            "oauth", 
            "google", 
            "identity", 
            "security", 
            "authentication", 
            "api", 
            "plaxo", 
            "protocol", 
            "data"
        ], 
        "u": "http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/01/bringing-openid-and-oauth-together.html"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Great Girl Manipulations by Digital Artist Michael O. | Abduzeedo - design inspiration and tutorials", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "photoshop", 
            "art", 
            "photography", 
            "inspiration", 
            "design", 
            "photos", 
            "women", 
            "blog", 
            "awesome", 
            "cool"
        ], 
        "u": "http://abduzeedo.com/great-girl-manipulations-digital-artist-michael-o"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "Nightline Face-Off - ABC News", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "debate", 
            "satan", 
            "theology", 
            "video", 
            "driscoll", 
            "news", 
            "education", 
            "religion", 
            "faceoff", 
            "television"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/"
    }, 
    {
        "d": "How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Magazine", 
        "dt": "2010-03-24T00:00:00Z", 
        "t": [
            "twitter", 
            "facebook", 
            "productivity", 
            "socialmedia", 
            "creativity", 
            "wired", 
            "research", 
            "social", 
            "socialnetworking", 
            "work"
        ], 
        "u": "http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/st_essay_distraction/"
    }
]

2010-03-24 09:15:12

User: keimlink

Functions: less python

Tags: curl http python json validation

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JSON processing with Python

Validates and pretty-prints the content fetched from the URL.

aria2c -s 4 http://my/url

2009-08-11 22:34:00

User: jrk

Tags: http ftp performance download aria2 bittorrent

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Download file with multiple simultaneous connections

`aria2c` (from the aria2 project) allows. Change -s 4 to an arbitrary number of segments to control the number of concurrent connections. It is also possible to provide multiple URLs to the same content (potentially over multiple protocols) to download the file concurrently from multiple hosts.

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curl -i -X HEAD http://localhost/

2009-03-25 17:34:39

User: ethanmiller

Tags: curl HEAD http

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Send an http HEAD request w/curl

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