Linux script with curl to check webservice is up

Question

I have a webservice provided at http://localhost/test/testweb

I want to write a script to check if webservice is up with curl

If there a curl parame

Answer 1

That will check the headers via wget 2>&1pipes the stderr to stdout grep filters -O /dev/null just throws the content of the page

if [ "\`wget http://example.org/ -O /dev/null -S --quiet 2>&1 | grep '200 OK'\`" != "" ]; 
then 
   echo Hello; 
fi;

I know not curl, but still a solution