Fast Download
Just thought I would post how fast my download is. It amazes me sometimes, it started at 2.5MB and leveled off at the 1.7MB range. Super cool!
Curl options
So today I wanted to have curl suppress its output to the screen while still verifying that a successful HTTP request was made.
What I found was to use the sLI switches to get it just right
curl -sLI http://my/url.html
s == silent
L == follow linking (3XX pages)
I == just check the HTTP response
This was used in a ruby script to check the status of my request to a given web server.