http-man.txt

 HTTP(1)		     dl's free utilities		     HTTP(1)
			     V1.2 - 24 Apr 1996



 NAME
      http - perform HTTP queries from command line


 SYNOPSIS
      http <get|head|put|delete> <url>


 DESCRIPTION
      http is a tool to perform HTTP queries from the command line.
      Informations and diagnostic goes to stderr. Data is taken from stdin
      (for put) or output to stdout (for get). If the environement variable
      http_proxy exists it will be used as a proxy url.

      The following commands are supported

      get  to send an http GET query. It fetches the given url to standard
	   output.

      head gets the header only of the url.

      put  to send an http PUT query (not recognized by all servers). It
	   reads data from standard input and then send them to the server.

      delete
	   to send an http DELETE query (not recognized by all servers).


 LIMITATIONS
      The url is limited to 256 characters.


 EXAMPLE
      http get http://www.demailly.com/~dl/wwwtools.html > wwwtools.html


 AUTHOR
      Laurent Demailly <L@Demailly.com>. Free software.
      (See LICENSE file)


 SEE ALSO
      http_lib(3)






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