curl - fetch headers of URL

To fetch only the headers of a HTTP URL, we can use the curl with the -I switch. Consider the following command line:

$ curl -I https://www.stanford.edu

HTTP/2 200 

server: nginx

date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:09:19 GMT

content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

set-cookie: wordpress_google_apps_login=3612792336cb3b1361acd56bb0addf07; path=/; secure

link: <https://www.stanford.edu/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"

link: <https://www.stanford.edu/>; rel=shortlink

x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN

vary: Accept-Encoding

wpe-backend: apache

x-wpe-loopback-upstream-addr: 127.0.0.1:6783

x-cacheable: NO:Set Known Cookie

cache-control: max-age=0, must-revalidate, private

x-cache: MISS

x-pass-why: 

x-cache-group: normal

x-type: default

$ 

In this we fetch the headers sent from the URL of the stanford university.