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Asked: 2026-05-22T18:18:33+00:00

I try to fetch HTTP content with cURL, but I only get an empty

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I try to fetch HTTP content with cURL, but I only get an empty body in the reply:

[root@www ~]# curl -v http://www.existingdomain.com/
* About to connect() to www.existingdomain.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 95.211.256.257... connected
* Connected to www.existingdomain.com (95.211.256.257) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 NSS/3.12.8.0 zlib/1.2.5 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.2.4
> Host: www.existingdomain.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/0.8.53
< Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 15:56:23 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3-0.dotdeb.1
<
* Connection #0 to host www.existingdomain.com left intact
* Closing connection #0

If I change the URL to another domain, like http://www.google.com, I get the content.

How can this be possible? And how to fetch content?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The server is free to send to the client whatever he likes, including nothing. While this is not exactly nice, there’s little the client can do about this. You could

    • check the server logs to see if there is some problem which makes him so calm (given the server is under your control) or
    • try another client to see if the server does not like to talk to curl. You can then configure curl to mimic a regular web browser, if that helps
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