CURL is a tool that use for send HTTP or HTTPS request to the server.
Basic CURL commands
Example command.
$ curl https://example.com $ curl 'IP address'
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Show HTTP header.
$ curl -I https://example.com # Print only http-header
$ curl -i https://example.com # Print http-header and source code of the website
Download file from a website.
$ curl -o source.html https://example.com # Save the output from this website name source.html
$ curl -s -O https://example.com/robots.txt # Don't show progress and write output to a local file named like the remote file we get name robots.txt.
Save cookies to a file.
$ curl -c cookies.txt https://www.google.com/ # Save the cookies value to a file name 'cookies.txt'
These are just a basic ‘curl’ command that you can use in the real world of bug bounty program. You can learn and play with it for improve your skills.
