'curl' - Notes

Basic token auth:

curl -H "Authorization: Token XXXXXXX" -H "Accept: application/json; indent=4" -k https://myapp.net/api/get/object/1

 

HTTP Status code:

root@84547d3c697e:/# curl -I https://null.53bits.co.uk/
HTTP/2 200

 

Replay JSON data:

curl -4s \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
https://rest.db.ripe.net/ripe/person/JBIL-RIPE | jq > test_data.json

sed -i 's/JBIL/JBIL2/g' test_data.json

curl -4sX POST \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @test_data.json \
https://rest.db.ripe.net/ripe/person/?password=mainterin-password-here\&dry-run

 

Retry:

cURL can retry N number of times, without a timeout, using purely built in CLI switches, there is no need to write a loop in BASH for this:

 curl --silent --fail-with-body --connect-timeout 5 --retry-all-errors --retry-delay 1 --retry-max-time 300 --retry 300 10.0.0.1:8080/health

 

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