How to display request headers with command line curl

Question

Command line curl can display response header by using -D option, but I want to see what request header it is sending. How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you want more alternatives, You can try installing a Modern command line HTTP client like httpie which is available for most of the Operating Systems with package managers like brew, apt-get, pip, yum etc

eg:- For OSX

brew install httpie

Then you can use it on command line with various options

http GET https://www.google.com