curl

Tool for making network requests to servers. This is typically installed on macs.

man curl

Quick References

Making a request is as simple as the following

curl <URL>

Flag	Description	Example
`-i`	Returns header and body response	`curl -i https://example.com`
`-I`	Returns header response only	`curl -I https://example.com`
`-H`	Add a header to the request	`curl -H 'X-Sample-Header: Test' https://example.com`
`-X`	Define request method	`curl -X POST https://example.com`
`-D`	HTTP Post data	`curl -X POST https://example.com -D "{'hello': 'world'}"`
`-V`	Verbose mode, get more details on the request	`curl -V https://example.com`
`-s`	Silent mode, reduces output data	`curl -s https://example.com`
`-O`	Download the response to a file instead	`curl -O https://example.com/file.txt`
`-k`	Insecure, useful for when trying to test a request with an expired cert	`curl -k https://example.com`
`-D`	Output headers to file	`curl -D headers.txt https://example.com`