kieranmasterton / traceit

Very quick and nasty command line script to trace HTTP redirects

traceit v0.1

Very, very quick command line script for Jon Matthews

Takes a url as an argument, runs curl command and extracts http response codes and locations. Outputs list of redirects.

Written by: Kieran Masterton

Date: 18.12.13

Installation

1. Download
2. cd into traceit directory
3. chmod +x traceit
4. Add traceit to your $PATH if you wish
5. Done!

Running a trace

./traceit <url>	

For example

./traceit http://google.com

Output should look like:

301 Moved Permanently: http://google.com
302 Found: http://www.google.com/
200 OK: http://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=cr&ei=m9yxUuDwA6WyywPbpoGoCg
Trace complete!