shell - Curl to return http status code along with the response

Question

I use curl to get http headers to find http status code and also return response. I get the http headers with the command

curl -I http://localhost

To get the response, I use the command

curl http://localhost

As soon as use the -I flag, I get only the headers and the response is no longer there. Is there a way to get both the http response and the headers/http status code in in one command?

Answer 1

I was able to get a solution by looking at the curl doc which specifies to use - for the output to get the output to stdout.

curl -o - http://localhost

To get the response with just the http return code, I could just do

curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}
" http://localhost