ref – http://makandracards.com/makandra/1145-how-to-send-http-requests-using-curl
curl http://localhost:6680/results -GET
to send a HTTP request
Download a Single File
The following command will get the content of the URL and display it in the STDOUT (i.e on your terminal).
$ curl http://www.centos.org
ryh:Desktop rickytsao$ curl http://www.centos.org
301 Moved Permanently
ryh:Desktop rickytsao$
Download file and store in file
To store the output in a file, you an redirect it as shown below. This will also display some additional download statistics.
$ curl http://www.centos.org > centos-org.html