Problem 😱

You would like to have get only headers from request.

Solution 🤓

We will use curl command to achieve it:

| => curl --help | grep "\-I,"
 -I, --head          Show document info only

usage:

| => curl -I http://pythonic.ninja
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:44:25 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 10556
Last-Modified: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 11:48:59 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Expires: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:54:25 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=600
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-GitHub-Request-Id: FF40:288D5:B312F9:F94B6E:5A030A39

How to fetch only headers using curl?

Problem 😱

Solution 🤓