furl
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A small utility designed to display the HTTP headers returned by web-servers in response to client requests.

Usage: furl [OPTIONS] [URL] [filename]
Where URL is in the format:

      [http://]www.foobar.com[:80][/example.html]


Options currently include the following:

-f, --file     specify an input file containing URLs
-b, --body     output the contents of HTTP request and the header
-V, --version  output version information and exit
-h, --help     display this help message and exit
-i, --ie       pretend to be Internet Explorer
-m, --mozilla  pretend to be Mozilla


Compiling
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This version of furl uses the Autoconf and Automake. On UNIX-like hosts try the following:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install

On Windows ( >= Windows 95 ) there are configuration files in the Win32 sub-directory for compiling with:

Mingw32 - mingw32.bat
Borland C++ - borland.bat
MS Visual C++ - vcmake.bat

Change directories to the Win32 sub-directory and run the applicable batch file.

It is also possible to cross-compile using Mingw32 on GNU/Linux by altering the Win32/Makefile.mingw32 file.

Kidney Bingos
chris@bingosnet.co.uk