# recon\_09 (header)
View the exercise here: [PentesterLab: Recon 09](https://pentesterlab.com/exercises/recon_09/course)
### **OBJECTIVE**
For this challenge, your goal is to access the headers from responses.
### **HEADER INSPECTION**
When accessing a web server, it often pays off to check the responses' headers. It's common to find information around version and technologies used.
### **SOLUTION**
When we use this default `curl` command, we don’t get the header.
```bash
curl https://hackycorp.com/
```
#### **Solution #1:**
{% hint style="success" %}
```bash
curl https://hackycorp.com/ --dump-header - -o /dev/null
```
* **`--dump-header -`** shows the HTTP response headers in the terminal
* **`-o /dev/null`**discards the response body (doesn’t save or display it)
{% endhint %}
#### **Solution #2:**
{% hint style="success" %}
```bash
curl https://hackycorp.com/ --dump-header - -o /dev/null -s
```
* **`-s`** to remove progress bar
{% endhint %}
