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httphead
+
+Synopsis
+
+httphead [options] url
+
+Description
+
+Send a customized HTTP-Request to url and display the HTTP-Response headers.
+
+Options
+
+
+- -r
+- display also the HTTP-Request
+- -q
+- display only the recieved HTTP status code
+- -n
+- do not send a User-Agent header with the HTTP-Request
+- -u agent-string
+- use agent-string as value for the User-Agent header
+- -a accept-string
+- send an Accept header with the value accept-string
+- -e encoding-string
+- send an Accept-Encoding header with the value encoding-string
+- -c charset-string
+- send an Accept-Charset header with the value charset-string
+- -l language-string
+- send an Accept-Language header with the value language-string
+
+
+
+- -v
+- display the version of httphead
+- -h
+- display a help message
+- -b
+- display the BSD license
+
+
+Requirements
+
+Unix-like platform and C compiler.
+
+Download
+
+httphead.c
+
+
+Bugs
+
+None known yet. If you find one please report it in the issue tracker.
+
+Future directions
+
+Support for Digest HTTP-Auth and HTTPS.
+
+See also
+
+
+- wget if you want to download more than the headers.
+
+
+License
+
+httphead is released under the BSD license.
+
+Copyright
+
+httphead is © 2006 Andreas Jaggi