Probably the most obvious thing to do with the curl command is to download a page from a web site for review on the command line. To do this, just enter “curl” followed by the URL of the web site like ...

Have you noticed a slight slowdown in your websites lately, but timing them with a stopwatch is doing you no favors? If you find this is happening, you know you’ll have to report it to management, but ...

How do you access a RESTful web service? That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you just want to test connectivity, a terminal-based utility like curl is a great RESTful web service ...