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

For programmatic usage, I use the following :

curlwithcode() {
    code=0
    # Run curl in a separate command, capturing output of -w "%{http_code}" into statuscode
    # and sending the content to a file with -o >(cat >/tmp/curl_body)
    statuscode=$(curl -w "%{http_code}" \
        -o >(cat >/tmp/curl_body) \
        "$@"
    ) || code="$?"

    body="$(cat /tmp/curl_body)"
    echo "statuscode : $statuscode"
    echo "exitcode : $code"
    echo "body : $body"
}

curlwithcode https://api.github.com/users/tj

It shows following output :

statuscode : 200
exitcode : 0
body : {
  "login": "tj",
  "id": 25254,
  ...
}