Process raw HTTP request

Question

I\'d like to pass a raw HTTP request like:

GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.8         


        

Answer 1

Note that neither of these solutions would work if your need httpS instead of http. In this case you can send it this way:

$ cat raw.http | openssl s_client -connect server:443

Answer 2

The question is tagged curl so I thought it was about time there was a curl answer

cat raw.http | curl "telnet://TARGETHOST:80"

For normal use just need to set the TARGETHOST to be the same as "host" header value.

For my purposes(not normal) I was hitting a TARGETHOST that was an ip address with a server that was listening for host headers of specific hosts.

Answer 3

Raw data in, raw data out:

nc example.org 80 < raw.http

If you need to pipe the data through some program:

cat raw.http | someprogram | nc example.org 80

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