Commonly used CURL commands for testing/debugging

curl_commands.sh

# GET a JSON result.
curl -i -H "Accept: Application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost/sessions.json

# POST a JSON result.
curl -X POST -H "Accept: Application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"id":"IDVALUE","name":"Sam"}' http://localhost/sessions.json

# Use cookies (write/read).
curl -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt http://localhost/users.json

# Follow redirection.
curl -L http://localhost

# Add a custom header Authorization.
curl --header "Authorization: MyAPIKey" http://localhost/users.json

# Reference <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14978411/http-post-and-get-using-curl-in-linux>