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curl 400 bad request

zobi | Last updated: Dec 05, 2018 03:05PM UTC

I want to connect to a website without browser, with curl. I set up an http proxy (burp community edition) to see how my browser connects to this website. I clear all history (including cookies) and restart my browser. Here is what the proxy gives (as http request): GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: xxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate DNT: 1 Connection: close so I translate this into curl within a file (let's called it curl.test): curl -i -s -k --head -o curlOutput -X $'GET' \ -H $'Host: https://www.xxxxxxxxx.xx' \ -H $'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0' \ -H $'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8' \ -H $'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' \ -H $'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' \ -H $'DNT: 1' \ -H $'Connection: close' \ -H $'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' https://www.xxxxxxxxx.fr I am not sure of the above syntax (for instance, for user-agent, I saw: --user-agent/-A from man, or -H 'User-Agent:...' over internet, so maybe my syntax is wrong although no error in the output. chmod 755 curl.test and ./curl.test; here is what I get: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:06:17 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 166 Connection: close Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15768000 X-DataDome: protected Set-Cookie: datadome=1TRX6GOR3NLKMWu88uOEnSmniB0MayD7Js4s8AeT96Z; Max-Age=31536000; Domain=https://www.xxxxxxxxx.fr; Path=/ I would like to know why the request is bad. Thanx folks!

PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Dec 06, 2018 09:58AM UTC

It looks like the host header is invalid. It should not contain https:// Did you generate the curl command using Burp? There's an option on the context menu to "copy as curl command"

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