Re: [Bug-wget] Does `wget -q -O /dev/null -S -o- url` ignore response body?

[Darshit Shah]

That is precisely what the `--spider` option does. It sends a HEAD request.
Just like the similarly named option in Curl.

If you want it to be more explicit, you can use `--method=HEAD` instead. It
will still do the same thing though.
* Peng Yu <address@hidden> [190812 20:56]:
> curl has the --head option. Is there a reason why wget doesn't have it?
> 
>        -I, --head
>               (HTTP  FTP  FILE)  Fetch the headers only! HTTP-servers
> feature the command HEAD which this uses to get nothing but the header
> of a document. When used on an
>               FTP or FILE file, curl displays the file size and last
> modification time only.
> 
> On 8/9/19, Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 09.08.19 18:06, Peng Yu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just want to retrieve the response header instead of the response body..
> >>
> >> Does `wget -q -O /dev/null -S -o- url` still download the response
> >> body, but then dump it to /dev/null? Or wget is smart enough to know
> >> the destination is /dev/null so that it will not download the response
> >> body at all? Thanks.
> >
> > /dev/null is just a another file.
> >
> > Try with --spider. It will send a HEAD request instead of a GET request
> > - thus no body is downloaded. The server just serves the header as if it
> > was a GET request.
> >
> > Regards, Tim
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Peng
> 
> 

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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