Getting curl to output HTTP status code?

A more specific way to print out just the HTTP status code is something along the lines of:

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://www.example.org/

A lot easier to work with in scripts, as it doesn't require any parsing :-)

The parameter -I might be added to improve response load performance. This will change the call to a HEAD call which will fetch response overhead only, without the body.

Note: %{http_code} returns on first line of HTTP payload

i.e.:

curl -s -o /dev/null -I -w "%{http_code}" http://www.example.org/

This should work for you if the web server is able to respond to HEAD requests (this will not perform a GET):

curl -I http://www.example.org

As an addition, to let cURL follow redirects (3xx statuses) add -L.

You can print the status code, in addition to all the headers by doing the following:

curl -i http://example.org

The good thing about -i is that it works with -X POST as well.