Few usefull options of the wget command to quickly test the response of a web application.
First
use "-o" option to log the wget operation
use "-O" to redirect the result in a specified file
"--post-file" allows you to POST data included in the specified file
Finally use "-no-check-certificate" option to don't check the server's certificate when connecting with SSL.
If you need to go through proxy, just use export command before wget to specify the login, password and url of the proxy.
First
wget http://www.google.comwill save the result send by the server in a file with the samename as the page asked (index.html in the case of www.google.com)
use "-o" option to log the wget operation
wget -o wget.log http://www.google.comLog you can grep 'HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK' in a script to simply know if the wget succeed
use "-O" to redirect the result in a specified file
wget -O google.index.txt http://www.google.com
"--post-file" allows you to POST data included in the specified file
wget --post-file=POSTdata.txt http://xxxxxx.yyy
Finally use "-no-check-certificate" option to don't check the server's certificate when connecting with SSL.
wget --no-check-certificate https://xxxxxx.yyy
If you need to go through proxy, just use export command before wget to specify the login, password and url of the proxy.
export http_proxy="http://login:password@proxy.exemple.org:8080"
