Follow redirects with verbose curl
Show full request/response headers including redirects
curl -sLv https://example.com 2>&1 | grep -E '^[<>*]'
more curl
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Time a request
curl -so /dev/null -w 'DNS: %{time_namelookup}s\nConnect: %{time_connect}s\nTTFB: %{time_starttransfer}s\nTotal: %{time_total}s\n' https://example.com
Download with progress
curl -L --progress-bar -o output.file https://example.com/file.tar.gz
Basic auth request
curl -s -u user:password https://api.example.com/endpoint | jq .
Check only HTTP status code
curl -so /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://example.com
POST JSON body
curl -X POST https://api.example.com/v1/items -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"name":"foo"}'