nc -l 8080 then curl to 127.0.0.1:8080 On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:45 AM, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Question for curl expert...

I want to see what curl sends out, because I want to know what a proper HTTP request looks like. Manpage says -v or --trace. OK. But, curl requires a real URL to connect to.

How can I run curl without specifying a real server/URL? I can't find any "dry-run" or "fake" options. -- William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

On 29/03/17 00:45, William Park via talk wrote:

Question for curl expert...

I want to see what curl sends out, because I want to know what a proper HTTP request looks like. Manpage says -v or --trace. OK. But, curl requires a real URL to connect to.

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html describes the range of what an HTTP 1.1 request can look like. e.g. OPTIONS, POST, request headers for specifying content types etc. Cheers, Jamon