http options for network

Requests permitted communication options for a given URL.

Signature

> http options (URL) --user --password --max-time --headers --insecure --allow-errors

Parameters

• URL: the URL to fetch the options from
• --user {any}: the username when authenticating
• --password {any}: the password when authenticating
• --max-time {int}: timeout period in seconds
• --headers {any}: custom headers you want to add
• --insecure (-k): allow insecure server connections when using SSL
• --allow-errors (-e): do not fail if the server returns an error code

Input/output types:

input	output
nothing	any

Examples

Get options from example.com

> http options https://www.example.com

Get options from example.com, with username and password

> http options -u myuser -p mypass https://www.example.com

Get options from example.com, with custom header

> http options -H [my-header-key my-header-value] https://www.example.com

Get options from example.com, with custom headers

> http options -H [my-header-key-A my-header-value-A my-header-key-B my-header-value-B] https://www.example.com

Simulate a browser cross-origin preflight request from www.example.com to media.example.com

> http options https://media.example.com/api/ -H [Origin https://www.example.com Access-Control-Request-Headers "Content-Type, X-Custom-Header" Access-Control-Request-Method GET]

Notes

Performs an HTTP OPTIONS request. Most commonly used for making CORS preflight requests.