cURL¶

Basic Commands¶

Command	Description
`curl -h`	cURL help menu
`curl example.com`	Basic GET request
`curl -s -O example.com/index.html`	Download file
`curl -k https://example.com`	Skip HTTPS (SSL) certificate validation
`curl example.com -v`	Print full HTTP request/response details
`curl -I https://www.example.com`	Send HEAD request (only prints response headers)
`curl -i https://www.example.com`	Print response headers and response body
`curl https://www.example.com -A 'Mozilla/5.0'`	Set User-Agent header
`curl -u admin:admin http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/`	Set HTTP basic authorization credentials
`curl http://admin:admin@<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/`	Pass HTTP basic authorization credentials in the URL
## Web Requests

Command	Description
`curl -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/`	Set request header
`curl 'http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/search.php?search=le'`	Pass GET parameters
`curl -X POST -d 'username=admin&password=admin' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/`	Send POST request with POST data
`curl -b 'PHPSESSID=c1nsa6op7vtk7kdis7bcnbadf1' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/`	Set request cookies
`curl -X POST -d '{"search":"london"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/search.php`	Send POST request with JSON data

Command	Description
`curl http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/london`	Read entry
`curl -s http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/ \\| jq`	Read all entries
`curl -X POST http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/ -d '{"city_name":"HTB_City", "country_name":"HTB"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'`	Create (add) entry
`curl -X PUT http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/london -d '{"city_name":"New_HTB_City", "country_name":"HTB"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'`	Update (modify) entry
`curl -X DELETE http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/New_HTB_City`	Delete entry