These wget recipes show you how to print the HTTP response headers that come back from the server. Wget normally hides them, but you can make them visible with the -S flag.
Print the Headers to Stdout
wget -S https://google.com
This recipe uses the -S flag to print the HTTP response headers to screen. The body is still saved to the default output file (usually index.html unless -O is used).
Print the Headers to Stdout (and Don't Save the Contents)
wget -S -q -O /dev/null https://google.com
This recipe combines -S (show headers), -q (quiet), and -O /dev/null (discard body) to make wget print only the headers and nothing else.
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