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+1 for pointing out the verbose flag provides the extra details. Great for testing REST apps.
– MrOodles
Commented Oct 15, 2012 at 20:37
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+1 very easy to use when doing POST request (curl -v --data "...")
– MegaTux
Commented Jun 23, 2014 at 20:06
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It even splits them in two different file outputs (http status details to stderr and response body to stdout)
– phil294
Commented Apr 30, 2018 at 7:37
This should be the accepted answer.
– simon
Commented Oct 10, 2022 at 8:56
This answers the question an a bit more, and it's not limited to a HEAD request.
– Jorge Garcia
Commented Mar 5 at 20:52

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