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With the curl command line tool, is it possible to echo, print, or view the request, and not send it? Sort of like a -n option? I would like to see the request header & body, and anything else that’s included. Is there anything else that’s sent besides header & body?
Let me second the suggestion to use ‘nc’ (netcat) to get to see all the details without sending anything offsite to anywhere.
But you can also get all the details for any curl command line request by using the –trace or –trace-ascii commands that can dump all incoming and outgoing data and requests for inspection.
These options have the additional benefit in comparison to ‘nc’ that they can show the protocol details even for HTTPS operations and with “real” command lines etc.