





 HTTP(1)		     dl's free utilities		     HTTP(1)

			     V1.2 - 24 Apr 1996







 NAME

      http - perform HTTP queries from command line





 SYNOPSIS

      http <get|head|put|delete> <url>





 DESCRIPTION

      http is a tool to perform HTTP queries from the command line.

      Informations and diagnostic goes to stderr. Data is taken from stdin

      (for put) or output to stdout (for get). If the environement variable

      http_proxy exists it will be used as a proxy url.



      The following commands are supported



      get  to send an http GET query. It fetches the given url to standard

	   output.



      head gets the header only of the url.



      put  to send an http PUT query (not recognized by all servers). It

	   reads data from standard input and then send them to the server.



      delete

	   to send an http DELETE query (not recognized by all servers).





 LIMITATIONS

      The url is limited to 256 characters.





 EXAMPLE

      http get http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/~dl/wwwtools.html > wwwtools.html





 AUTHOR

      Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>. Free software.





 SEE ALSO

      http_lib(3)

























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