We are testing our server.
I am a beginner to shell scripting.
I need an bash shell script, to read a text file having URLs, query each URL to the server and check whether the application server returns a 200 OK or 302 Redirect response.
Can you point me to any tutorial or link to do this ?
for name in `cat textfile`; do curl -s -o /dev/null --write-out %{http_code} $name 2>&1 ; echo -e "\n"; done
the explanation:
for url in `cat textfile`
Output all the entries in your text file with the cat command, and make the current pointer available through the url variable.
curl -s -o /dev/null --write-out %{http_code} $url 2>&1
Call cURL and suppress any progress status with -s, write any other output to /dev/null (it's a black hole which you can throw anything into) with the -o switch, then use --write out %{http_code} to give you the return code for each link you do, put the current link down with $url, and redirect STDERR to STDOUT with 2>&1 (in case you do get any errors). Then...
; echo -e "\n"
Echo on a new line, regardless if the last statement (that whole cURL block) failed.
`; done
Finish the loop.
This probably isn't what you wanted though, since it only prints out the return codes.
Use wget command with --spider option.
However this may cause HEAD request instead of GET which, depending on web site configuration may cause incorrect results. Another alternative is to use curl.
Follow-up to @qweet
Use curl with -K, --config <config file> command-line parameter. Each URL in this config-file must be defined with url parameter:
url="page/to/get"
