simple curl wrapper to aid in web testing

crawl.sh

#!/bin/bash
# File: crawl.sh
# Desc: Package designed to provide an API to help automate web testing
# Dependencies: curl, getopts
# Copyright 2014, Scott Cagno, All rights reserved.

# usage function
function usage() { 
    echo -e "usage: $0 <opts> -h [host-uri]" 
    echo -e " opts:"
    echo -e "  -c   enable cookie handling"
    echo -e "  -f   submit form data (uses post implicitly)\n"
    exit 1 
}

# parse command line options
while getopts "cf:h:" flag; do
    case "${flag}" in
        c)
            EPOCH_DAY=$(( `date +%s` / 60 / 60 / 24 ))
            ARGS=$ARGS" -c cookie-$EPOCH_DAY.txt -b cookie-$EPOCH_DAY.txt"
            ;;
        f)
            ARGS=$ARGS" -d ${OPTARG}"
            ;;
        h)
            h=${OPTARG}
            HOST=$h
            ;;
        *)
            usage
            ;;
    esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))

# check to ensure host
if [ -z "${h}" ]; then 
    usage 
fi

# issue request
curl -k $ARGS $HOST