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

I have used this :

    request_cmd="$(curl -i -o - --silent -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'Authorization: _your_auth_code==' 'https://example.com')"

To get the HTTP status

    http_status=$(echo "$request_cmd" | grep HTTP |  awk '{print $2}')
    echo $http_status

To get the response body I've used this

    output_response=$(echo "$request_cmd" | grep body)
    echo $output_response

Answer 2

The -i option is the one that you want:

curl -i http://localhost

-i, --include Include protocol headers in the output (H/F)

Alternatively you can use the verbose option:

curl -v http://localhost

-v, --verbose Make the operation more talkative

Answer 3

while : ; do curl -sL -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\\n" http://host -o /dev/null; done

Answer 4

the verbose mode will tell you everything

curl -v http://localhost

Answer 5

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,
  ...
}

Answer 6

I found this question because I wanted BOTH the response and the content in order to add some error handling for the user.

You can print the HTTP status code to std out and write the contents to another file.

curl -s -o response.txt -w "%{http_code}" http://example.com

This let's you use logic to decide if the response is worth processing.

http_response=$(curl -s -o response.txt -w "%{http_code}" http://example.com)
if [ $http_response != "200" ]; then
    # handle error
else
    echo "Server returned:"
    cat response.txt    
fi