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Why does my curl command respond successfully and the wget command return a 405 response?

I am executing two commands as follows:

curl http://somehost:port/endpoint

This returns me a successful response.

Whereas if I execute the same command with wget as follows:

wget --spider -S http://somehost:port/endpoint

this gives me a 405 "Method not allowed" error.

If I simply do wget http://somehost:port/endpoint I can download the file successfully.

What is the issue causing the error?

Solution

  • When you run this command

    curl http://somehost:port/endpoin

    It sends the request using the GET method.

    But another one uses the HEAD method. So that service may only allow the GET method and deny others.