cUrl Misc

Is there a way to follow redirects with command line cURL
curl -L <URL>

curl -i -v -k url

Dump response header
--dump-header headers.txt
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6136022/script-to-get-the-http-status-code-of-a-list-of-urls

url has a specific option, --write-out, for this:

$ curl -o /dev/null --silent --head --write-out '%{http_code}\n' <url>
200

• -o /dev/null throws away the usual output
• --silent throws away the progress meter
• --head makes a HEAD HTTP request, instead of GET
• --write-out '%{http_code}\n' prints the required status code

I haven't tested this on a 500 code, but it works on others like 200, 302 and 404.

response=$(curl --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null servername)

http://superuser.com/questions/569092/how-to-split-the-http-error-code-from-the-contents-in-curl