Curl to return http status code along with the response

Question

I use curl to get http headers to find http status code and also return response. I get the http headers with the command

curl -I http://localhost
         


        

Answer 1

I found this question because I wanted BOTH the response and the content in order to add some error handling for the user.

You can print the HTTP status code to std out and write the contents to another file.

curl -s -o response.txt -w "%{http_code}" http://example.com

This let's you use logic to decide if the response is worth processing.

http_response=$(curl -s -o response.txt -w "%{http_code}" http://example.com)
if [ $http_response != "200" ]; then
    # handle error
else
    echo "Server returned:"
    cat response.txt    
fi