Any Independent Tools to check HTTP Headers

After using this tool dating from 2002 the past years, I felt the need for an upgrade. This tool checks simply the head of a url. Im would prefere a browser-indepentant software that works regardless of my Opera/Ie/Safari and as long as it works on windows 7. (please don't advise browser-dependant addons like LiveHttpHeaders which wor开发者_StackOverflow社区ks only on FF3.6 and older) let alone on other browsers.

Any fast, snappy, independant tool doing similar like this, which might be less than eight years old, with bit more capabilities is an answer! Thanks for your suggestions.

http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/viewhead/

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You could always use curl:

curl -I -L http://stackoverflow.com

Failing that, something like Burp Suite might suit your needs.

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I've used the HEAD utility from the Perl package libwww-perl for years and find it meets my needs:

$ HEAD http://stackoverflow.com/
200 OK
Cache-Control: public, max-age=0
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:32:37 GMT
Vary: *
Content-Length: 190652
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:21:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:20:00 GMT
Client-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:32:38 GMT
Client-Peer: 64.34.119.12:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

Of course, if you don't already have Perl installed, it might be too much hassle for a simple little tool. The package also comes with GET and POST utilities, as well as some more fully-formed programs.