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Re: Reading entire request from a file

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:08:17 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Andreas Schildbach wrote:

> I am searching for a way to just send an HTTP request from a file, and
> look at the response. This is for testing purposes.

Then I'd suggest you use 'nc'.

> There are various options in curl to read various parts of the response
> (file attachments, headers, etc.) from a file, but how can I just read the
> entire request from a file?

If you're going to do the entire thing yourself you don't need curl but can
just use nc or possibly even telnet.

So no, curl doesn't offer any such option. I don't see what the point would
be...

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Received on 2008-09-09