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Comment by jvns | Hacker News Reader

that's #16, though perhaps I should just say that the reason the response is empty is that Google is redirecting you. I'd love more suggestions for curl exercises though :)

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Yeah although I'm getting this:

  <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
  <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
  <H1>301 Moved</H1>
  The document has moved
  <A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
  </BODY></HTML>

So not an empty response...

Yea looks like they've changed it to output HTML fallback now. Presumably for browsers which don't respect the redirect status code. This document must predate that change.

Ah, I missed it!

Another exercise could be to have a page where the Access Control Allow Origin is set to a specific domain, then make a request by setting a different origin.

E.g:

  curl -H "Origin: https://wrong.origin.com" https://httpbin.org/anything

Many people think CORS is enforced by the server.

Do you have one that uses `––resolve`?

I thought, the idea of the parent was to teach the user how to follow redirects.

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