curl usage to get header

Question

Why does this not work:

curl -X HEAD http://www.google.com

But these both work just fine:

curl -I http://www.google.com

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Answer 1

You need to add the -i flag to the first command, to include the HTTP header in the output. This is required to print headers.

curl -X HEAD -i http://www.google.com

More here: https://serverfault.com/questions/140149/difference-between-curl-i-and-curl-x-head