The curl command in Linux is explained in detail

  • 2020-05-13 04:16:52
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grammar

# curl [option] [url]

Common parameters:


-A/--user-agent <string>     Set up the user agent to send to the server 
-b/--cookie <name=string/file> cookie String or file read location 
-c/--cookie-jar <file>      After the operation is finished cookie Write to this file 
-C/--continue-at <offset>    Breakpoint continued to turn 
-D/--dump-header <file>     the header The information is written to this file 
-e/--referer          Source url 
-f/--fail            Not displayed when connection failed http error 
-o/--output          Write the output to this file 
-O/--remote-name       Write the output to the file, keeping the file name of the remote file 
-r/--range <range>       Retrieved from HTTP/1.1 or FTP Server byte range 
-s/--silent          Mute mode. It doesn't export anything 
-T/--upload-file <file>      Upload a file 
-u/--user <user[:password]>   Set the user and password for the server 
-w/--write-out [format]     What output is finished 
-x/--proxy <host[:port]>     Used on a given port HTTP The agent 
-#/--progress-bar       The progress bar shows the current transfer status 

Example:

1. Basic usage


# curl http://www.linux.com

After execution, html of www.linux.com is displayed on the screen

Ps: this method is often used to test whether a server can reach a web site because linux is installed without a desktop, which means no browser

2. Save the page you visit

2.1: save using the redirect function of linux


# curl http://www.linux.com >> linux.html

2.2: web pages can be saved using curl's built-in option: -o (lower case)


$ curl -o linux.html http://www.linux.com

After the execution, the following interface will be displayed, and the display of 100% will indicate that the saving was successful


% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
        Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 79684 0 79684 0 0 3437k  0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 7781k

2.3: you can use curl's built-in option: -O (uppercase) to save files on a web page

Note that url is specific to a file, or you won't be able to grab it


# curl -O http://www.linux.com/hello.sh

3. Test the return value of the webpage


# curl -o /dev/null -s -w %{http_code} www.linux.com

Ps: in scripts, this is a very common test to see if the site is working properly

4. Specify the proxy server and its port

Many times you need to use a proxy server to surf the Internet (such as when you use a proxy server to surf the Internet or when you are blocked by others because you are using curl others' websites). Fortunately, curl supports setting up the proxy by using the built-in option: -x


# curl -x 192.168.100.100:1080 http://www.linux.com

5, cookie

Some websites use cookie to record session information. For browsers like chrome, cookie information can be easily processed, but cookie can be easily processed in curl by adding relevant parameters

5.1: save cookie information in response of http. Built-in option: -c (in lower case)


# curl -c cookiec.txt http://www.linux.com

After execution, cookie information is saved into cookiec.txt

5.2: save header information in response of http. Built-in option: - D


# curl -D cookied.txt http://www.linux.com

After execution, cookie information is saved into cookied.txt

Note: -c (lowercase) produces cookie which is not the same as cookie in -D.

5.3: use cookie

Many websites monitor your cookie information to see if you are following the rules when visiting their site, so we need to use the saved cookie information. Built-in option: - b


# curl http://www.linux.com
0

6. Mimic the browser

Some sites require a specific browser to access them, and some require a specific version. curl built-in option: -A allows us to specify the browser to visit the website


# curl -A "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.0)" http://www.linux.com

The server side will then assume that it was accessed using IE 8.0

7. Forged referer (hotlinking)

Many servers check for referer access by http to control access. For example: you are the first to visit the home page, and then visit the email page in the home page, here access email referer address is a successful visit to the home page after the page address, if the server found that the email page access referer address is not the home address, it is concluded that it is a stolen link

option: -e, built into curl, allows us to set referer


# curl -e "www.linux.com" http://mail.linux.com

This will make the server think you clicked on a link from www.linux.com

8. Download files

8.1: download files using curl.

Use built-in option: -o(lowercase)


# curl http://www.linux.com
3

Use built-in option: -O (uppercase)


# curl http://www.linux.com
4

This saves the file locally with the name on the server

8.2: cyclic download

Sometimes the image can be downloaded to the front of the part of the name is 1, on the last coccyx name is not 1


# curl http://www.linux.com
5

This will save dodo1, dodo2, dodo3, dodo4, dodo5

8.3: download rename


# curl http://www.linux.com
6

Because the names of files in hello and bb are dodo1, dodo2, dodo3, dodo4, dodo5. So the second download overrides the first download, so you need to rename the file.


# curl -o #1_#2.JPG http://www.linux.com/{hello,bb}/dodo[1-5].JPG

If you download hello/ dodo1.JPG, it will be hello_dodo1.JPG, and so on, thus effectively avoiding overwriting the file

8.4: download in blocks

Sometimes the download will be large, at this time we can block download. Use the built-in option: -r


# curl -r 0-100 -o dodo1_part1.JPG http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG
# curl -r 100-200 -o dodo1_part2.JPG http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG
# curl -r 200- -o dodo1_part3.JPG http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG
# cat dodo1_part* > dodo1.JPG

This allows you to view the contents of dodo1.JPG

8.5: download the file via ftp

curl can be downloaded through ftp, which provides two syntaxes to download from ftp


# curl http://www.linux.com
9

8.6: display the download progress bar


# curl -# -O http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG

8.7: download progress information will not be displayed


# curl -s -O http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG

9. Break point

In windows, we can use software such as xunlei for breakpoint continuation. The curl can achieve the same effect with the built-in option: -C
If you lose your connection while downloading dodo1.JPG, you can use the following method to continue the transmission


# curl -C -O http://www.linux.com/dodo1.JPG

10. Upload files

curl can not only download files, but also upload files. This is done with built-in option: -T


# curl -T dodo1.JPG -u  The user name : password  ftp://www.linux.com/img/

This uploaddodo1.JPG to the ftp server

11. Display grab error


# curl -f http://www.linux.com/error

Other parameters:


-a/--append       When uploading a file, attach it to the target file 
--anyauth        You can use "any" authentication method 
--basic         use HTTP Basic authentication 
-B/--use-ascii       use ASCII Text transmission 
-d/--data <data>     HTTP POST Mode data transfer 
--data-ascii <data>    In order to ascii The way of post data 
--data-binary <data>    In order to 2 Base mode post data 
--negotiate        use HTTP The authentication 
--digest       Use digital authentication 
--disable-eprt      It is prohibited to use EPRT or LPRT
--disable-epsv      It is prohibited to use EPSV
--egd-file <file>     Is random data (SSL) Set up the EGD socket The path 
--tcp-nodelay      use TCP_NODELAY options 
-E/--cert <cert[:passwd]>   Client certificate file and password  (SSL)
--cert-type <type>     Certificate file type  (DER/PEM/ENG) (SSL)
--key <key>      Private key file name  (SSL)
--key-type <type>     Private key file type  (DER/PEM/ENG) (SSL)
--pass <pass>      The private key password  (SSL)
--engine <eng>      Encryption engine use  (SSL). "--engine list" for list
--cacert <file>    CA certificate  (SSL)
--capath <directory>   CA Orders,  (made using c_rehash) to verify peer against (SSL)
--ciphers <list>    SSL password 
--compressed      The request to return is a compressed situation  (using deflate or gzip)
--connect-timeout <seconds>  Set the maximum request time 
--create-dirs      Create a directory hierarchy for the local directory 
--crlf        Upload is to put the LF Into a CRLF
--ftp-create-dirs     If the remote directory does not exist, create the remote directory 
--ftp-method [multicwd/nocwd/singlecwd]  control CWD The use of 
--ftp-pasv       use  PASV/EPSV  Instead of the port 
--ftp-skip-pasv-ip     use PASV when , Ignore this IP address 
--ftp-ssl       Try to use  SSL/TLS  To carry out ftp The data transfer 
--ftp-ssl-reqd      Asked to use  SSL/TLS  To carry out ftp The data transfer 
-F/--form <name=content>   simulation http Form submission data 
-form-string <name=string>   simulation http Form submission data 
-g/--globoff      Disable url sequence and scope use {} and []
-G/--get       In order to get The way to send data 
-h/--help       help 
-H/--header <line>     Custom header information is passed to the server 
--ignore-content-length   Ignore the HTTP Length of header information 
-i/--include      Output time includes protocol Header information 
-I/--head       Only document information is displayed 
-j/--junk-session-cookies   Ignore when reading a file session cookie
--interface <interface>   Use the specified network interface / address 
--krb4 <level>      Use the specified security level krb4
-k/--insecure      Allow not to use certificate to SSL site 
-K/--config      The specified configuration file is read 
-l/--list-only      list ftp The name of the file in the directory 
--limit-rate <rate>    Set transmission speed 
--local-port<NUM>     Force the use of a local port number 
-m/--max-time <seconds>   Set the maximum transfer time 
--max-redirs <num>     Sets the maximum number of directories to read 
--max-filesize <bytes>    Sets the maximum number of files to download 
-M/--manual      Display full manual 
-n/--netrc       from netrc The user name and password are read from the file 
--netrc-optional     use  .netrc  or  URL To cover -n
--ntlm        use  HTTP NTLM  The authentication 
-N/--no-buffer      Disable buffered output 
-p/--proxytunnel     use HTTP The agent 
--proxy-anyauth     Choose any 1 Proxy authentication method 
--proxy-basic      Use basic authentication on the proxy 
--proxy-digest      Use digital authentication on the proxy 
--proxy-ntlm      Used on the agent ntlm The authentication 
-P/--ftp-port <address>   Use port address instead of use PASV
-Q/--quote <cmd>     Before transferring the file, send the command to the server 
--range-file      Read ( SSL ) 
-R/--remote-time     When a file is generated locally, keep the remote file time 
--retry <num>      The number of times a retry occurs when a transmission has a problem 
--retry-delay <seconds>   Set the retry interval when there is a problem with the transmission 
--retry-max-time <seconds>   Set the maximum retry time when there is a problem with the transport 
-S/--show-error     Display an error 
--socks4 <host[:port]>    with socks4 The agent gives the host and port 
--socks5 <host[:port]>    with socks5 The agent gives the host and port 
-t/--telnet-option <OPT=val> Telnet Option is set 
--trace <file>      To the specified file debug
--trace-ascii <file>   Like -- Tracking but not hex The output 
--trace-time      tracking / When verbose output, add a timestamp 
--url <URL>     Spet URL to work with
-U/--proxy-user <user[:password]>  Set the proxy username and password 
-V/--version      Display version information 
-X/--request <command>    What command to specify 
-y/--speed-time     The time it takes to abandon the speed limit. The default is 30
-Y/--speed-limit     Stop transmission speed limit, speed time ' seconds 
-z/--time-cond      Transfer time setting 
-0/--http1.0      use HTTP 1.0
-1/--tlsv1       use TLSv1 ( SSL ) 
-2/--sslv2       use SSLv2 ( SSL ) 
-3/--sslv3       The use of SSLv3 ( SSL ) 
--3p-quote      like -Q for the source URL for 3rd party transfer
--3p-url       use url For the first 3 The transfer 
--3p-user       Use your username and password to start the process 3 The transfer 
-4/--ipv4       use IP4
-6/--ipv6       use IP6

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