From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-24T05:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Displaying the html from a ruby .cgi script

Marc Heiler wrote:
> I have a script, foobar.cgi
> 
> I can load it into my browser, as in
> http://localhost/foobar.cgi
> 
> It generates html code. I am using Apache on Linux here,
> everything is local only.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> Is there an easy way to grab that generated html code and
> display it (as a long string) on a console?

(1) curl http://localhost/foobar.cgi

With appropriate command-line options you can also POST to the CGI 
easily enough. (Maintaining a session with cookies would be more awkward 
though)

(2) I believe you should just be able to run the CGI from the command 
line:

/path/to/foobar.cgi
or
ruby /path/to/foobar.cgi

in which case it'll prompt you for any parameters, then press ^D to get 
the response.

(3) The very manual way:

telnet localhost 80
GET /foobar.cgi HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost
<Enter>

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