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cURL cheatsheet

cURL

Command Description
 curl -h cURL help menu
 curl inlanefreight.com Basic GET request
 curl -s -O inlanefreight.com/index.html Download file
 curl -k https://inlanefreight.com Skip HTTPS (SSL) certificate validation
 curl inlanefreight.com -v Print full HTTP request/response details
 curl -I https://www.inlanefreight.com Send HEAD request (only prints response headers)
 curl -i https://www.inlanefreight.com Print response headers and response body
 curl https://www.inlanefreight.com -A 'Mozilla/5.0' Set User-Agent header
 curl -u admin:admin http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/ Set HTTP basic authorization credentials
 curl http://admin:admin@<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/ Pass HTTP basic authorization credentials in the URL
 curl -H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/ Set request header
 curl 'http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/search.php?search=le' Pass GET parameters
 curl -X POST -d 'username=admin&password=admin' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/ Send POST request with POST data
 curl -b 'PHPSESSID=c1nsa6op7vtk7kdis7bcnbadf1' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/ Set request cookies
 curl -X POST -d '{"search":"london"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/search.php Send POST request with JSON data

APIs

Command Description
 curl http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/london Read entry
 curl -s http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/ | jq Read all entries
 curl -X POST http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/ -d '{"city_name":"HTB_City", "country_name":"HTB"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' Create (add) entry
 curl -X PUT http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/london -d '{"city_name":"New_HTB_City", "country_name":"HTB"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' Update (modify) entry
 curl -X DELETE http://<SERVER_IP>:<PORT>/api.php/city/New_HTB_City Delete entry

Browser DevTools

Shortcut Description
 [CTRL+SHIFT+I] or [F12] Show devtools
 [CTRL+SHIFT+E] Show Network tab
 [CTRL+SHIFT+K] Show Console tab
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