curl usage to get header

Question

Why does this not work   curl -X HEAD http   www google com   But these both work just fine   curl -I http   www google com  curl -X GET http   www google com

User · Answer

curl --head https   www example net  I was pointed to this by curl itself  when I issued the command with -X HEAD  it printed   Warning  Setting custom HTTP method to HEAD with -X --request may not work the  Warning  way you want  Consider using -I --head instead

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You need to add the -i flag to the first command  to include the HTTP header in the output  This is required to print headers   curl -X HEAD -i http   www google com   More here  https   serverfault com questions 140149 difference-between-curl-i-and-curl-x-head

User · Answer

google com is not responding to HTTP HEAD requests  which is why you are seeing a hang for the first command     It does respond to GET requests  which is why the third command works     As for the second  curl just prints the headers from a standard request

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