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  1. HTTP(1) dl's free utilities HTTP(1)
  2. V1.2 - 24 Apr 1996
  3. NAME
  4. http - perform HTTP queries from command line
  5. SYNOPSIS
  6. http <get|head|put|delete> <url>
  7. DESCRIPTION
  8. http is a tool to perform HTTP queries from the command line.
  9. Informations and diagnostic goes to stderr. Data is taken from stdin
  10. (for put) or output to stdout (for get). If the environement variable
  11. http_proxy exists it will be used as a proxy url.
  12. The following commands are supported
  13. get to send an http GET query. It fetches the given url to standard
  14. output.
  15. head gets the header only of the url.
  16. put to send an http PUT query (not recognized by all servers). It
  17. reads data from standard input and then send them to the server.
  18. delete
  19. to send an http DELETE query (not recognized by all servers).
  20. LIMITATIONS
  21. The url is limited to 256 characters.
  22. EXAMPLE
  23. http get http://www.demailly.com/~dl/wwwtools.html > wwwtools.html
  24. AUTHOR
  25. Laurent Demailly <L@Demailly.com>. Free software.
  26. (See LICENSE file)
  27. SEE ALSO
  28. http_lib(3)
  29. - 1 - Formatted: April 24, 1996