Does `curl -v` show the complete HTTP request including the body

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I thought user=user&password=password will be in the body of the request, but I can't find it. Where is it? Does -v show the complete request including the body? Thanks.

$ curl --data "user=user&password=password" -v http://google.com/
*   Trying 172.217.3.110...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to google.com (172.217.3.110) port 80 (#0)
> POST / HTTP/1.1
> Host: google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.58.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 27
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
* upload completely sent off: 27 out of 27 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
< Allow: GET, HEAD
< Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:01:40 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Server: gws
< Content-Length: 1589
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
  <meta charset=utf-8>
  <meta name=viewport content="initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width">
  <title>Error 405 (Method Not Allowed)!!1</title>
  <style>
    *{margin:0;padding:0}html,code{font:15px/22px arial,sans-serif}html{background:#fff;color:#222;padding:15px}body{margin:7% auto 0;max-width:390px;min-height:180px;padding:30px 0 15px}* > body{background:url(//www.google.com/images/errors/robot.png) 100% 5px no-repeat;padding-right:205px}p{margin:11px 0 22px;overflow:hidden}ins{color:#777;text-decoration:none}a img{border:0}@media screen and (max-width:772px){body{background:none;margin-top:0;max-width:none;padding-right:0}}#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;margin-left:-5px}@media only screen and (min-resolution:192dpi){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat 0% 0%/100% 100%;-moz-border-image:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) 0}}@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:2){#logo{background:url(//www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_150x54dp.png) no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:100% 100%}}#logo{display:inline-block;height:54px;width:150px}
  </style>
  <a href=//www.google.com/><span id=logo aria-label=Google></span></a>
  <p><b>405.</b> <ins>That’s an error.</ins>
  <p>The request method <code>POST</code> is inappropriate for the URL <code>/</code>.  <ins>That’s all we know.</ins>
* Connection #0 to host google.com left intact

Best Answer

The description of curl’s -v option says

-v, --verbose

Makes curl verbose during the operation. Useful for debugging and seeing what's going on "under the hood". A line starting with '>' means "header data" sent by curl, '<' means "header data" received by curl that is hidden in normal cases, and a line starting with '*' means additional info provided by curl.

If you only want HTTP headers in the output, -i, --include might be the option you're looking for.

If you think this option still doesn't give you enough details, consider using --trace or --trace-ascii instead.

So -v shows headers (in addition to the response body, which curl shows anyway), and you need --trace to see the bodies:

curl --data "user=user&password=password" --trace google.log http://google.com/

will output detailed logs in google.log.

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