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- <H2>NAME</H2>
- http - perform HTTP queries from command line
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- <H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
- <B>http</B> <<I>get</I>|<I>head</I>|<I>put</I>|<I>delete</I>> <<B>url</B>>
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- <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
- <B>http</B> is a tool to perform HTTP queries from the command line.
- Informations and diagnostic goes to stderr. Data is taken from stdin
- (for <I>put</I>) or output to stdout (for <I>get</I>).
- If the environement variable <b>http_proxy</b> exists it will be used as a
- proxy url.
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- The following commands are supported
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- <I>get</I> to send an http GET query. It fetches the given <B>url</B> to standard
- output.
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- <I>head</I> gets the header only of the <B>url</B>.
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- <I>put</I> to send an http PUT query (not recognized by all servers). It
- reads data from standard input and then send them to the server.
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- <I>delete</I><BR>
- to send an http DELETE query (not recognized by all servers).
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- <H2>LIMITATIONS</H2>
- The url is limited to 256 characters.
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- <H2>EXAMPLE</H2>
- http get http://www.demailly.com/~dl/wwwtools.html > wwwtools.html
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- <H2>AUTHOR</H2>
- <a href="http://www.demailly.com/~dl/">Laurent Demailly</a>
- <L@Demailly.com>. Free software.
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- (See LICENSE file)
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- <H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
- <A HREF="http_lib.html">http_lib(3)</A>
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