Question

I have a webservice provided at http://localhost/test/testweb

I want to write a script to check if webservice is up with curl

If there a curl parameter given, returns 200 OK ok true false so that I can use it is if-else block in linux script

Answer 1

curl -sL -w "%{http_code}\\n" "http://www.google.com/" -o /dev/null

• -s = Silent cURL’s output
• -L = Follow redirects
• -w = Custom output format
• -o = Redirects the HTML output to /dev/null

Example:

[~]$ curl -sL -w "%{http_code}\\n" "http://www.google.com/" -o /dev/null
200

I would probably remove the \\n if I were to capture the output.