HTTP from command line

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Is there a way to execute HTTP requests from the command line?
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See man wget ...

WGET(1) GNU Wget
WGET(1)

NAME
Wget - The non-interactive network downloader.

SYNOPSIS
wget [option]... ...

DESCRIPTION
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background,
while the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a
retrieval
and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By
con-
trast, most of the Web browsers require constant user's presence,
which
can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML and XHTML pages and create local
versions
of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the
original site. This is sometimes referred to as ``recursive
download-
ing.'' While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
(/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in down-
loaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
keep
retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server sup-
ports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download
from where it left off.

Oops, sorry, that's available on a Linux system. On Windoze, I don't know?
 
NoStop said:
Duh, do you know what a command line is?
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Duh yourself. Type in the command I've shown in a command prompt window,
complete with the quotes.

Steve N.
 
Duh yourself. Type in the command I've shown in a command prompt window,
complete with the quotes.

Steve N.
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And just what happens Stevey? Does one leave the command line terminal by
any chance and launch a GUI app? Thought so.
 
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