Question

For test and learning purpose, Is it a console available to send http request like

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1␍␊
 Host: www.example.com␍␊
 ␍␊

and get response.

I know curl is pretty handy, but what I what is to explore what’s under the hood

or write the request in a text file and send it by curl?

Answer 1

Grab a hold of the netcat tool:

echo -en 'GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: stackoverflow.com\r\n\r\n'
 | nc stackoverflow.com 80