command line web browsing

Is there a way to perform http commands GET/PUT/SET whatever via a command line in ubuntu or windows xp? Preferably without installing 3rd party products. Being that http is text based I thought it would be alot easier to run in the cmd line.

I've been able to get what I want out of GET in ubuntu in 开发者_运维知识库bash via

$wget google.com
$cat index.html

This is kinda clunky. It would be nice to pipe the output or something, but even that isn't straight forward. C programs are fine too. I'm trying to do something like what we get with Fiddler, but more basic.

telnet google.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: google.com

You have to hit return twice after the Host line. It doesn't get any more basic.

If you are familiar with HTTP use telnet.

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Although it requires a 3rd party tool, these days I use curl. The -X option allows me to specify the HTTP verb. Windows has a few bash clients that allow you to run curl including Cygwin.

Sample Execution

$ curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{value: "600"}' http://localhost:8888/my/endpoint