how to get curl to output only http response body (json) and no other headers etc

Question

I am using curl in a bash script to fetch the response of a service as below,

response=$(curl -isb -H \"Accept: application/json\" \"http://host:8080/some/resour         


        

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash

req=$(curl -s -X GET http://host:8080/some/resource -H "Accept: application/json") 2>&1
echo "${req}"