Technical Tip: How to use browsers to obtain curl commands for testing

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Description	This article describes how to use Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge to obtain curl commands in the different command lines, such as cmd, bash, PowerShell, for testing purposes and analysis.
Scope	FortiWeb and FortiADC.
Solution	For Google Chrome: Open Google Chrome. In a new window, with a 'right click' open the context menu and select 'Inspect'. Select the Network tab. Access the required web page or application. 'Right-click' on the required generated HTTP request and select the required command line. Example: If it is required to collect the curl command for the bash command line, it is possible to copy and obtain the curl command for the required command line as shown below: curl 'http://mytestserver.local/upload.php' \ -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7' \ -H 'Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9' \ -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \ -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \ -H 'Cookie: cookiesession1=678A3E0DCA8A1CEB6BE5C66953AD007B; adAuthCookie=b34571e; iseeyou=Francisco, domain=10.10.10.10' \ -H 'Pragma: no-cache' \ -H 'Referer: http://mytestserver.local/' \ -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' \ -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36' \ --insecure For Firefox: Open Firefox. In a new window, with a 'right click' open the context menu and select 'Inspect'. Select the Network tab. Access the required web page or application. 'Right-click' on the required generated HTTP request and select the required command line. For Microsoft Edge: Open Google Chrome. In a new window, with a 'right click' open the context menu and select 'Inspect'. Select the Network tab. Access the required web page or application. 'Right-click' on the required generated HTTP request and select the required command line.