Curl

Curl is the swiss army knife of web requests. curl "http://some.ip.you.have:theport"

Sending a http request

curl "http://127.0.0.1:80" sends http req on port 80 If you have a web application with Application Endpoints then it can get responses

POST Requests

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5000/greet/david

JSON

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name" : "david"}' http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/products

Form

curl -X POST https://reqbin.com/echo/post/form
   -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" 
   -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" 

File

curl -F 'image=@./perplexed' http://127.0.0.1:5000/genai/image

Detailed Request

curl -I http://127.0.0.1:5000/hello