How to send a header using a HTTP request through a curl call?

Question

I wish to send a header to my Apache server on a Linux box. How can I achieve this via a curl call?

Answer 1

In case you want send your custom headers, you can do it this way:

curl -v -H @{'custom_header'='custom_header_value'} http://localhost:3000/action?result1=gh&result2=ghk