其他答案要求下载响应体。但是有一种方法可以让POST请求只获取头文件:

curl -s -I -X POST http://www.google.com

-I本身执行HEAD请求，该请求可以被-X POST覆盖以执行POST(或任何其他)请求，并且仍然只获得头数据。

更容易-这也遵循链接。

curl -IL http://example.com/in-the-shadows

- d, dump-header 将协议头写入指定文件。

   This  option  is handy to use when you want to store the headers
   that a HTTP site sends to you. Cookies from  the  headers  could
   then  be  read  in  a  second  curl  invocation by using the -b,
   --cookie option! The -c, --cookie-jar option is however a better
   way to store cookies.

对于长响应体(以及各种其他类似的情况)，我使用的解决方案总是将管道输送到更少的地方，因此

curl -i https://api.github.com/users | less

or

curl -s -D - https://api.github.com/users | less

会完成任务的。

虽然其他答案在所有情况下都不适合我，但我能找到的最佳解决方案(也可以使用POST)，从这里开始:

Curl -vs 'https://some-site.com' 1> /dev/null

-D, --dump-header <file>
       Write the protocol headers to the specified file.

       This  option  is handy to use when you want to store the headers
       that a HTTP site sends to you. Cookies from  the  headers  could
       then  be  read  in  a  second  curl  invocation by using the -b,
       --cookie option! The -c, --cookie-jar option is however a better
       way to store cookies.

and

-S, --show-error
       When used with -s, --silent, it makes curl show an error message if it fails.

and

-L/--location
      (HTTP/HTTPS) If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response
      code), this option will make curl redo the request on the new place. If used together with -i/--include or -I/--head, headers from  all  requested
      pages  will  be  shown.  When authentication is used, curl only sends its credentials to the initial host. If a redirect takes curl to a different
      host, it won’t be able to intercept the user+password. See also --location-trusted on how to change this. You can limit the amount of redirects to
      follow by using the --max-redirs option.

      When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP
      response was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following  request  using  the  same  unmodified
      method.

从手册页。所以

curl -sSL -D - www.acooke.org -o /dev/null

遵循重定向，转储头到stdout和发送数据到/dev/null(这是一个GET，不是POST，但你可以做同样的事情与POST -只是添加任何选项，你已经在使用的POST数据)

注意- d后面的-表示输出“文件”是标准输出。