How can I set the request header for curl

Question

How would I pass multiple values in the header for a curl request

User · Answer

Sometimes changing the header is not enough, some sites check the referer as well:

curl -v \
     -H 'Host: restapi.some-site.com' \
     -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
     -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \
     -H 'Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6' \
     -e localhost \
     -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.65 Safari/537.36' \
     'http://restapi.some-site.com/getsomething?argument=value&argument2=value'

In this example the referer (-e or --referer in curl) is 'localhost'.

User · Answer

To pass multiple headers in a curl request you simply add additional -H or --header to your curl command  Example   Simplified   curl -v -H  header1 val  -H  header2 val  URL    Explanatory   curl -v -H  Connection  keep-alive  -H  Content-Type  application json   https   www example com  Going Further For standard HTTP header fields such as User-Agent  Cookie  Host  there is actually another way to setting them  The curl command offers designated options for setting these header fields   -A  or --user-agent   set  quot User-Agent quot  field  -b  or --cookie   set  quot Cookie quot  field  -e  or --referer   set  quot Referer quot  field  -H  or --header   set  quot Header quot  field  For example  the following two commands are equivalent  Both of them change  quot User-Agent quot  string in the HTTP header        curl -v -H  quot Content-Type  application json quot  -H  quot User-Agent  UserAgentString quot  https   www example com       curl -v -H  quot Content-Type  application json quot  -A  quot UserAgentString quot  https   www example com

User · Answer

Just use the -H parameter several times   curl -H  Accept-Charset  utf-8  -H  Content-Type  application x-www-form-urlencoded  http   www some-domain com

[curl] How can I set the request header for curl?

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