How to do a HTTP HEAD request from the windows command line

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What s the best way  or tool  on the Windows  Vista  command line to get size and modification time for a file on a remote webserver  without downloading it

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On Linux  I often use curl with the --head parameter  It is available for several operating systems  including Windows    edit  related to the answer below  gknw net is currently down as of February 23 2012  Check curl haxx se for updated info

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If you cannot install aditional applications  then you can telnet  you will need to install this feature for your windows 7 by following this  the remote server   TELNET server name 80   followed by   HEAD  virtual directory file ext   or  GET  virtual directory file ext   depending on if you want just the header  HEAD  or the full contents  GET

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I d download PuTTY and run a telnet session on port 80 to the webserver you want  HEAD  resource HTTP 1 1 Host  www example com   You could alternatively download Perl and try LWP s HEAD command  Or write your own script

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There is a Win32 port of wget that works decently   PowerShell s Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head would work as well

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1  See the headers that come back from a GET request  wget --server-response -O  dev null http          1a  Save the headers that come back from a GET request  wget --server-response -o headers -O  dev null http          2  See the headers that come back from GET HEAD request  wget --server-response --spider http          2a  Save the headers that come back from a GET HEAD request  wget --server-response --spider -o headers http           David

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I d download PuTTY and run a telnet session on port 80 to the webserver you want  HEAD  resource HTTP 1 1 Host  www example com   You could alternatively download Perl and try LWP s HEAD command  Or write your own script

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There is a Win32 port of wget that works decently   PowerShell s Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head would work as well

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I d download PuTTY and run a telnet session on port 80 to the webserver you want  HEAD  resource HTTP 1 1 Host  www example com   You could alternatively download Perl and try LWP s HEAD command  Or write your own script

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There is a Win32 port of wget that works decently   PowerShell s Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head would work as well

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If you cannot install aditional applications  then you can telnet  you will need to install this feature for your windows 7 by following this  the remote server   TELNET server name 80   followed by   HEAD  virtual directory file ext   or  GET  virtual directory file ext   depending on if you want just the header  HEAD  or the full contents  GET

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1  See the headers that come back from a GET request  wget --server-response -O  dev null http          1a  Save the headers that come back from a GET request  wget --server-response -o headers -O  dev null http          2  See the headers that come back from GET HEAD request  wget --server-response --spider http          2a  Save the headers that come back from a GET HEAD request  wget --server-response --spider -o headers http           David

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I d download PuTTY and run a telnet session on port 80 to the webserver you want  HEAD  resource HTTP 1 1 Host  www example com   You could alternatively download Perl and try LWP s HEAD command  Or write your own script

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There is a Win32 port of wget that works decently   PowerShell s Invoke-WebRequest -Method Head would work as well

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