vik-y
6/24/2015 - 3:32 PM

Some quick hacks regarding using curl

Some quick hacks regarding using curl

#http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html#GET Use this link for further reference 

curl --referer http://www.example.come http://www.example.com
# To fake the referrer header 


curl --location http://www.example.com
# To make curl follow the redirects as well 

curl --upload-file uploadfile http://www.example.com/receive.cgi
# to upload a file 

curl --data-urlencode "name=I am Daniel" http://www.example.com
# to do a simple post request 

curl --user-agent "Mozilla/4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.15 i686)" [URL]
#Changing the user agent 

curl --cookie "name=Daniel" http://www.example.com
#Custom cookie 

curl --cookie cookies.txt --cookie-jar newcookies.txt  http://www.example.com
#use a cookie file 

curl --header "Host:" http://www.example.com
#modify headers