cURL Tutorials

Tutorials focused on cURL, as used from the command line.

  1. Performing HTTP HEAD requests using cURL from the command line.

About cURL

cURL is a command-line library that allows communication over various internet protocols, perhaps most commonly via the HTTP Protocol.

For example, a simple GET request can be sent very easily by writing curl [URL] in a terminal, and curl will automatically download the contents of the requested web-page, and output it directly in the terminal. But, it is also possible to save it to a file.

These tutorials are primarily aimed at using CURL from the command line, if you want to instead send HTTP requests from PHP, you should check out this category: PHP HTTP Requests

Links

  1. Home of curl:// - curl.haxx.se