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		mistat on March 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Curl vs. Wget curl for checking http headers simply with: curl -vskL http:1.2.3.4 -H "Host: example.com" > /dev/null

ce4 on March 3, 2016 [–]

Why don't you just use the -I flag?

mistat on March 3, 2016 | [–]

For some sites a HEAD may return different headers than GET, so it is safer to return the results in full. Also using vsk shows the request headers, including IP so you can easily see if things such as roundrobin DNS is in use, again to assist with debugging.

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