cURL: Show request timing details

._curl_timing_details.md

Inspired by Joseph Scott's post¹ and Radovan Svedic's comment² let's have a nice box formatting for cURL's timing output.

Usage:

curl -sw "@$HOME/.curl_time.txt" https://ddg.gg/
    
# or without website output
curl -o /dev/null -sw "@$HOME/.curl_time.txt" https://ddg.gg/

• ¹) https://blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/timing-details-with-curl/
• ²) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17638026/calculating-server-processing-time-with-curl/41739711#41739711

Don't forget to save .curl_time.txt from below to your home dir!

Example:

q@bullshit:~$ curl -o /dev/null -Lsw "@$HOME/.curl_time.txt" https://ddg.gg/

┌───▫ REQUEST TIMING ▫───┐
│namelookup...: 0,008404s│
│connect......: 0,134121s│
│appconnect...: 0,304982s│
│pretransfer..: 0,305334s│
│redirect.....: 0,341413s│
│starttransfer: 0,437185s│
│time_total...: 0,438552s│
│┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄│
│ server processing time │
│ (0,437185 - 0,305334)s │
└────────────────────────┘
q@bullshit:~$ echo 0,437185 - 0,305334|tr , .|bc
.131851

.curl_time.txt

\n
┌───▫ REQUEST TIMING ▫───┐\n
│namelookup...: %{time_namelookup}s│\n
│connect......: %{time_connect}s│\n
│appconnect...: %{time_appconnect}s│\n
│pretransfer..: %{time_pretransfer}s│\n
│redirect.....: %{time_redirect}s│\n
│starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}s│\n
│time_total...: %{time_total}s│\n
│┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄│\n
│ server processing time │\n
│ (%{time_starttransfer} - %{time_pretransfer})s │\n
└────────────────────────┘\n