I tried to use cURL but it seems that by default (Debian) is not compiled with HTTPS support and I dont want to build it myself.
wget seems to have SSL support but I found no information on how to generate an OPTIONS HTTP request with wget.
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2Are you sure it doesn't support HTTPS? Maybe it's just not willing to accept the remote site's certificate. The `-k` option tells it to ignore certificate errors, and that may help. – Charles Engelke Jan 23 '13 at 14:25
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The curl installed by default in Debian supports HTTPS since a great while back. (a long time ago there were two separate packages, one with and one without SSL but that's not the case anymore)
OPTIONS /path
You can send an OPTIONS request with curl like this:
curl -i -X OPTIONS http://example.org/path
You may also use -v instead of -i to see more output.
OPTIONS *
To send a plain * (instead of the path, see RFC 7231) with the OPTIONS method, you need curl 7.55.0 or later as then you can run a command line like:
curl -i --request-target "*" -X OPTIONS http://example.org
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9Note that you'll need to use the "-v" flag too, if you want to see the response (check for the "Allow" header). – pioto Feb 15 '14 at 04:25
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14`-i` also works to let you see output and is a bit less noisy than `-v` – Dan Passaro Jul 25 '14 at 17:20
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1Any idea how to get it to send `OPTIONS *`, as described in [rfc2616](https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html)? – theory May 03 '17 at 02:55
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2@theory: it is coming soon: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/19/options-with-curl/ – Daniel Stenberg Jul 06 '17 at 08:56