How to do a GET on my localhost node server using curl?

I am trying to GET a page from my localhost server using the command line on linux.

I have my node’s REST endpoint like this:

app.get('/autogen',function(req, res) {
    res.set('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
    res.status(200).send("OK");
});

And going here on my browser works perfectly:

However, I can’t figure out how to use CURL to do the same GET request via the command line.

Here is what I have tried:

• curl -H "Accept: */*" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl --ipv4 -H "Accept: */*" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl -i -H "Accept: */*" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl -H "Accept: text/html" -H "Content-Type: text/html" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl -H "Accept: text/html" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl -H "Accept: text/plain" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl -I -H "Accept: */*" -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v
• curl --ipv4 -X GET http://localhost:8084/autogen -v

ALL CURL COMMANDS RETURN Response: HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

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Logs & Info

Here is the full log of the response message from the CURL commands above (substituted sections with {}):

* About to connect() to proxy {MYCOMPANYPROXY} port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying {MYIP}... connected
* Proxy auth using Basic with user '{MYNAME}'
> GET http://localhost:8084/autogen HTTP/1.1
> Proxy-Authorization: Basic {...}
> User-Agent: curl/7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.22.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.23 librtmp/2.3
> Host: localhost:8084
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
> Accept: text/plain
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
< HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< Pragma: no-cache
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
< Connection: Keep-Alive
< Content-Length: 21958
< 
* Excess found in a non pipelined read: excess = 3013 url = /autogen (zero-length body)
* Connection #0 to host {MYCOMPANYPROXY} left intact
* Closing connection #0

Also here is the full headers from vising the page via chrome:

Also my no_proxy environment variable is set to not be used on localhost:

echo $no_proxy
localhost,127.0.0.1,*.dom1,*.grp

And here’s the versions of what I’m using:

**Express Version:  3.14.0
**Node Version:  v6.5.0
**Curl version: curl 7.22.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Also, side note, my server will tell me when someone goes to that page like

GET /autogen 200 10.168 ms - 2
GET /autogen 304 1.617 ms - -

But when I use the curl commands I get NOTHING so it must not be resolving or something

Answer

@dave_thompson_085 helped me with this one!

Apparently chrome was not using a proxy, and curl was, and I do NOT want to use the proxy.

The cause was my curl settings file ~/.curlrc. It contained something like this:

proxy=http://myuser:mypass@myproxy

So, I removed ~/.curlrc and BAM! Works now!

Thank you!