.curlrc simple practical configuration

.curlrc

# ---------------------------------------------
# Custom Configurations for CURL
# Usage instructions:
#   Download this file and save it at: $HOME/.curlrc
# Contact: Jaziel Lopez Software Engineer Tijuana Area, BC MX

# store the trace in curl_trace.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
# --trace curl_trace.txt

# store the header info in curl_headers.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
# --dump-header curl_headers.txt

# change the below referrer URL or comment it out entirely
# -e "https://www.google.com"

# HTTP Compresed
--compressed

#change the below useragent string. get your/other UA strings from http://www.useragentstring.com/
-A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13"

#some headers
-H  "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8"
-H  "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1"
-H  "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch"
-H  "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8"

# follow redirects
--location

#verbose
--verbose

#trace the time taken. more info here https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/verbose/trace
# --trace-time

# write the trace data to stdout
# --trace-ascii -

# ok if certification validation fails
--insecure

# authentication
-u user:password

# output
-w "Content Type:%{content_type}\nResponse Code: %{response_code}\nSpeed Download: %{speed_download}\n"