Tag: curl

How to specify which IP address to use for curl or wget commands

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Useful when you try to send a request from cPanel shell from your Dedicated IP address

For curl you need to use –interface to specify IP address

Example:

curl --interface 11.22.33.44 http://alltime.pp.ua/

For wget you need to use –bind-address to set IP from which you need to send a request

wget --bind-address=192.0.2.116 http://alltime.pp.ua/
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How to access protect folder by apache HTTP Basic Authentication using cURL

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Normally if you try to access protect folder by Basic Authentication without proper credentials you will get 401 Unauthorized error:

Example:

curl -s https://yourwebserver.com/mysecure

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>
<html><head>
<title>401 Unauthorized</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Unauthorized</h1>
<p>This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.

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Update curl on Centos to the latest version

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Find the latest version under the following link:

http://curl.haxx.se/download/?C=M;O=D

For instance curl-7.46.0 version

Download and install it

cd /usr/local/src/
curl http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.46.0.tar.gz | tar xvz
cd curl-7.46.0/
./configure && make && make install
curl -V
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