cURL is a command line tool for processing URLs; in the form of http://, https:// or ftp://.

Often used in data manipulation and transfers.

curl will retrieve the resource passed as an argument and print the contents to standard output, or to the file passed to the -o option.

Cheat Sheet

Check gmail

Check HTTP Headers

Get a FTP directory listing

Get a HTTP Basic authenticated page

Perform imap queries using Curl

Post to a page

Read a HTTP URL

Read a HTTPS URL

Read an IP address

Reading a URL with variable GET parameters

Read a web page and store it in a file

Referer & User Agent

Track Web Redirects

Upload a file with FTP