You can experiment with the different HTTP methods using the cURL command line tool. For example:
curl --head http://www.google.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:33:24 GMT
Expires: -1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=a2a414b9a84c8ffd:TM=1240155204:LM=1240155204:S=16kZnqzeSxIJT3jv; expires=Tue, 19-Apr-2011 15:33:24 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.co.uk
Server: gws
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
- The -X option lets you specify an HTTP method other than GET.
