One major shortcoming of curl is that more and more wepages are having their main piece of content painted by a JavaScript AJAX response that occurs after the initial HTTP response. curl never picks up on this post-painted content.
So far I couldn’t find anything really, but is it true that curl doesn’t really time out at all?
I’d like to do a health check of a service by calling a specific url on it. Feels like the simplest solution would be to use cron to do the check every minute or so. In case of errors, cron sends me an email.
Is it possible to use curl and post binary data without passing in a file name? For example, you can post a form using binary via –data-binary:
I was using the following command
Imagine something like this:
I am using curl to upload a file to a server via an HTTP post.
I’m getting the error: Argument list too long when trying to use cUrl to send a file in base64 inside the body of my JSON.
I am trying to login from cURL command line with the command
I’m looking for the (1) most secure and (2) simplest way to have a user type a password on a bash shell prompt and to have that password become part of stdin to a program.