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curl Cheat Sheet

Usage

 curl -k https://example.com           # Ignore SSL errors
 curl -s https://example.com           # Silence curl download infos, just content

 curl -X PUT --data-binary @myinput.json https://example.com/api/v1/endpoint     # use data from file

Using curl metrics

You can use curl to measure resolving, time to connect, time to first byte and total time like this:

  • Issue sequential requests (each with new connection)

    while true; do
   curl -w "$(date +%FT%T)    dns %{time_namelookup}    connect %{time_connect}   firstbyte %{time_starttransfer}   total %{time_total}   HTTP %{http_code}\n" -o /dev/null -s "https://example.com"
   sleep 1
done

  • Issue sequential HTTP/1.1 requests on 1 connection

    curl -w "$(date +%FT%T)    dns %{time_namelookup}    connect %{time_connect}   firstbyte %{time_starttransfer}   total %{time_total}   HTTP %{http_code}\n" --keepalive -K <(printf 'url="https://example.com/"\n%.0s' {1..10000})