Process raw HTTP request

Question

I'd like to pass a raw HTTP request like:

GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: fr,fr-fr;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://example.org/test
Cookie: foo=bar; lorem=ipsum;

to a HTTP client.

I tried cat raw.http | curl cat raw.http | curl but without success.

Any suggestion?

Thx.

Answer 1

Raw data in, raw data out:

nc example.org 80 < raw.http

If you need to pipe the data through some program:

cat raw.http | someprogram | nc example.org 80

Manual page

Answer 2

The question is tagged curl so I thought it was about time there was a curl answer

cat raw.http | curl "telnet://TARGETHOST:80"

For normal use just need to set the TARGETHOST to be the same as "host" header value.

For my purposes(not normal) I was hitting a TARGETHOST that was an ip address with a server that was listening for host headers of specific hosts.

Answer 3

Note that neither of these solutions would work if your need httpS instead of http. In this case you can send it this way:

$ cat raw.http | openssl s_client -connect server:443