Using CURL to obtain superflous HTTP verbs

Instead of using netcat or telnet to check a website for allowing superflous HTTP verbs, CURL makes it simpler:

curl -X OPTIONS -I <host name>

An example of the output is shown below:

# curl -X OPTIONS -I http://thestar.com.my
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Allow: OPTIONS, TRACE, GET, HEAD
Content-Length: 0
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Public: OPTIONS, TRACE, GET, HEAD, POST
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:51:52 GMT

Another one line wonder :)