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Inspect API response headers with curl

Print response headers without downloading a large response body.

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Use -I for a HEAD request when the endpoint supports it. To inspect headers from a regular GET response, discard the body:

curl -sS -D - -o /dev/null https://api.example.com/health

Check the status line, cache headers, content type, and any retry or rate-limit headers before changing client code.

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