Send a customized HTTP-Request and display the HTTP-Response headers.

@Andreas Jaggi Andreas Jaggi authored on 27 Feb 2013
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README.md

httphead

Synopsis

httphead [<var>options</var>] 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