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Much better than the accepted answer (which does a HEAD request).
– neu242
Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 10:05
21

Maybe obvious, but -i does work with any HTTP method, not just GET and POST... :)
– mac
Commented Oct 20, 2014 at 10:35
9

the best answer as it makes curl output both headers and body, making it suitable for most of the tasks when used in a script
– Display Name
Commented Aug 31, 2015 at 19:52
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This is the best answer, and can be used in conjunction with -s (don't show progress meter or error messages) and -S(do show error messages after all)
– Jonathan Hartley
Commented Feb 23, 2017 at 19:10
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Sorry if one wants only the HTTP status code this answer is not doing that. pvandenberk's answer that sends the output to /dev/null` does output only the three digit HTTP code by then requesting only the HTTP code in the format output.
– frederickjh
Commented Feb 20, 2021 at 14:20

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