Comments on: Use FURL to Retrieve Website Headers

By: Rex

Rex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:21:35 +0000

alias furl=’curl -i -X HEAD’

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:58:07 +0000

Dang! I should have read this sooner. I was itching to jump all over the “curl -I” suggestion. Everyone got here first!

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:08:08 +0000

another trick is:

lynx -head http://davidwalsh.name

lynx is a linux textual browser

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:28:19 +0000

curl -I is good. This is another suggestion…

lwp-request -ed “http://lindesk.com/”

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:58:46 +0000

As already mentioned,

curl -I HOSTNAME

Has the same functionality but without installing something extra.

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:49:34 +0000

Not sure where sources are but the Debian package is at http://bertorello.ns0.it/debian/furl/

By: David Walsh

David Walsh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:57:44 +0000

@adamnfish: Thanks for sharing that. On a side note, “adamnfish” sounds like a wacky morning FM radio show.

By: adamnfish

adamnfish — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:55:23 +0000

Or, if you don’t fancy installing furl for this, you can do the same with curl (a powerful and flexible utility for doing performing requests) with the -I flag:

eg.
curl -I http://davidwalsh.name

(you probably have curl installed already)

to see the headers and the full response, use the verbose flag
curl -v http://davidwalsh.name

By: Dominik Porada

Dominik Porada — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:22:07 +0000

I’d use it to retrieve the X-Pingback value and if it was included, I’d send a trackback. ;-)