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Checking response headers using the command line (console)

Use the command below to view the response headers for a given URL. The “–spider” option in the call prevents wget from actually downloading the page/file; it just checks that it exists and returns the headers.   References http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Download-Options.html  

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Memory: Clearing the cache

> sync > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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