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 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 

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Answer 2

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