Getting curl to output HTTP status code?

Question

I'm using curl at the command line on Linux to issue HTTP requests. The response bodies are printed to standard out, which is fine, but I can't see from the man page how to get curl to print the HTTP status code from the response (404, 403 etc). Is this possible?

Answer 1

This should work for you:

curl -I http://www.example.org

As an addition, to let cURL follow redirects (3xx statuses) add -L.

Answer 2

If you want to see the header as well as the result you can also use -v:

curl -v http://www.example.org