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Basic operations

Send a GET request to a URL
curl "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users?limit=5"
Send a POST request with data
curl --data "firstName=John" "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1"
Send a POST request with JSON data
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"firstName":"John"}'  "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1"
Send a PUT request with data:
curl -X PUT --data "firstName=John" "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1
Send a DELETE request:
curl -X DELETE "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1"
Send a request with a custom header
curl -H "appKey: asdf123123" "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1"
Send a request with Basic Authentication
curl -u username:password "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users/1"
Send a request and save the response to a file
curl "https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com/users?limit=5" -o filename.txt
Send a request and follow redirects
curl -L https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com
Send a request and display the response headers
curl -i https://testapi.devtoolsdaily.com