HTTP/0.9

The HTTP version used before HTTP/1.0 was made available is often referred toas HTTP/0.9. Back in those days, HTTP responses had no headers as they wouldonly return a response body and then immediately close the connection.

curl can be told to support such responses but by default it does notrecognize them, for security reasons. Almost anything bad looks like anHTTP/0.9 response to curl so the option needs to be used with caution.

The HTTP/0.9 option to curl is different than the other HTTP command lineoptions for HTTP versions mentioned above as this controls what response toaccept, while the others are about what HTTP protocol version to try to use.

Tell curl to accept an HTTP/0.9 response like this:

curl --http0.9 https://example.com/