Make HTTP request

Name    

http-client - HTTP request tool

Synopsis

http-client [OPTIONS] url

Description

The http-client utility sends a HTTP request to an HTTP server or proxy.

The http-client tool will print out status line and interesting headers from the response. The message body is also printed.

Options

The http-client utility accepts following command line options:

--method=name

Specify the request method name (GET by default).

--proxy=url

Specifies the proxy via which the request will be sent.

--ua=value

Specifies the User-Agent header field.

--mf=n

Specify the initial Max-Forwards count.

--pipe

Use pipelining (do not shutdown client connection after request).

--extra

Insert standard input to the requests.

Examples

You want to query supported features of http://connecting.nokia.com:

 $ http-client --method OPTIONS http://connecting.nokia.com

Environment

NTH_DEBUG, TPORT_DEBUG, TPORT_LOG.

Author:

Pekka Pessi <Pekka.Pessi@nokia-email.address.hidden>

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