How to check your RESTful Web Service if you don’t have an access via browser or you just like command line? This is a frequent issue when you develop or deploy RESTful applications. There are 2 popular tools for it: curl and wget.

curl – is a tool to transfer data from or to a server. It supports a lot of different protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, IMAP, POP3, SCP, SMTP, TELNET and more…
Wget – just the non-interactive network downloader. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols

I use both of them and suggest the following commands for testing web services:

If you need more details regarding these tools there is a good comparison curl vs wget.