Getting curl to output HTTP status code?
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/272265/g...
Answer 1 links:
[available variables for the ]: https://curl.se/docs/manpage.html#-w
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ANSWER 1
Score 1497
A more specific way to print out just the HTTP status code is something along the lines of:
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://www.example.org/
A lot easier to work with in scripts, as it doesn't require any parsing :-)
The parameter -I might be added to improve response load performance. This will change the call to a HEAD call which will fetch response overhead only, without the body.
Note: %{http_code} returns on first line of HTTP payload (available variables for the -w option on the curl documentation page)
i.e.:
curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{http_code}" http://www.example.org/
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 970
This should work for you if the web server is able to respond to HEAD requests (this will not perform a GET request):
curl -I http://www.example.org
As an addition, to let cURL follow redirects (3xx statuses) add -L.
ANSWER 3
Score 552
You can print the status code, in addition to all the headers by doing the following:
curl -i http://example.org
The good thing about -i is that it works with -X POST as well.
ANSWER 4
Score 295
If you want to see the header as well as the result you can use the verbose option:
curl -v http://www.example.org
curl --verbose http://www.example.org
The status will appear in the header. E.g.
< Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 19:12:59 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity