httphead

Synopsis

httphead [options] url

Description

Send a customized HTTP-Request to url and display the HTTP-Response headers.

Options

-r

display also the HTTP-Request

-q

display only the recieved HTTP status code

-n

do not send a User-Agent header with the HTTP-Request

-u agent-string

use agent-string as value for the User-Agent header

-a accept-string

send an Accept header with the value accept-string

-e encoding-string

send an Accept-Encoding header with the value encoding-string

-c charset-string

send an Accept-Charset header with the value charset-string

-l language-string

send an Accept-Language header with the value language-string

-v

display the version of httphead

-h

display a help message

-b

display the BSD license

Requirements

Unix-like platform and C compiler.

Download

httphead.c

Bugs

None known yet. If you find one please report it to Andreas Jaggi.

Future directions

Support for Digest HTTP-Auth and HTTPS.

See also

• wget if you want to download more than the headers.

License

httphead is released under the BSD license.

Copyright

httphead is © 2006 Andreas Jaggi

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