Question

I have a one line bash command which gets me an HTML site over an SSL encrypted HTTPS connection:

echo "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: www.example.com\n\n" | openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443 -quiet 2> /dev/null

The site is being loaded but with HTTP headers like:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:15:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu)

and more like this. With 2> /dev/null I can hide the output of wrong SSL certificates and more.
I do not want to take another script because curl does not what I want to do.

Answer 1

It is not possible due to the nature of openssl s_client which gives you the direct and plain output from a service which runs behind the connecting port (443 in my example from the question where I want to get / on a webserver with SSL).

telnet would also give you the plain output from the HTTP protocol and curl would show me the HTML site without headers and with HTTPS but does not allow self written commands to the web server.