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

I use:

curl -f -s -I "http://example.com" &>/dev/null && echo OK || echo FAIL

-f --fail Fail silently (no output at all) on HTTP errors
-s --silent Silent mode
-I --head Show document info only

Note:
depending on needs you can also remove the "-I" because in some cases you need to do a GET and not a HEAD