Linux script with curl to check webservice is up

Question

I have a webservice provided at http://localhost/test/testweb

I want to write a script to check if webservice is up with curl

If there a curl parame

Answer 1

Same as @burhan-khalid, but added --connect-timeout 3 and --max-time 5.

test_command='curl -sL \
    -w "%{http_code}\\n" \
    "http://www.google.com:8080/" \
    -o /dev/null \
    --connect-timeout 3 \
    --max-time 5'
if [ $(test_command) == "200" ] ; 
then
   echo "OK" ;
else
   echo "KO" ;
fi