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
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name" : "david"}' http://127.0.0.1:3000/api/products
Detailed Request
curl -I http://127.0.0.1:5000/hello