curl cheatsheet

Health check of a website

curl -sSf http://example.org > /dev/null

• If the request was successful, it will return... Nothing. If it's unsuccessful, it will try for a while and then return Could not resolve host: <hostname>

How to test if your rate limiting works:

for i in {1..200}; do curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:4567; done

• 1..200: number of requests
• http://localhost:4567: the URL that needs to be tested