Using curl to GET a page
The simplest and most common request/operation made using HTTP is to get a
URL. The URL could itself refer to a web page, an image or a file. The client
issues a GET request to the server and receives the document it asked for.
If you issue the command line
curl http://vickistan.com
you get a web page returned in your terminal window. The entire HTML document
that that URL holds.
curl -w %{time_total},%{size_download}\\n -o /dev/null http://vickistan.com
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 25969 100 25969 0 0 14135 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 –:–:– 25509
1.837,25969
curl –form upload=@testfile –form press=OK https://vickistan.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
If you need to pass credentials:
curl -u username:password http://URL
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
