# Testing Ignition without a web-browser

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/testing-ignition-without-a-web-browser/60204>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 31, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/testing-ignition-without-a-web-browser/60204 "2022-05-31T13:01:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mquinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@mquinn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mquinn)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/testing-ignition-without-a-web-browser/60204/1 "2022-05-31T13:01:26Z")

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I’d like to be able to test that Ignition is running properly on my system without having a web browser. Of course, I can check that the service claims to be running but I’d like to be able to make sure that the web interface is working properly.

I’m running Linux without a GUI. When I do the logical thing: curl [https://myserver.mydomain:8043](https://myserver.mydomain:8043) I get nothing back. When I add the -L option to follow redirects I get back “curl: (47) Maximum (50) redirects followed”. Surely there’s some simple way to get the ignition homepage html to dump out to the screen.

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**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/testing-ignition-without-a-web-browser/60204/2 "2022-05-31T14:48:37Z")

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You’re tripping on the redirect loop because curl doesn’t retain cookies by default. Try:

```auto
$ curl -b "" -L https://myserver.mydomain:8043

```

You might also benefit from retrieving the gateway state from our status endpoint or gateway system info as well, e.g.:

 ![2022-05-31 at 9.47 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/2/42cac31c80e64d628a27c809d8c43a3c0dc368a7.png)

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**Author:** ![mquinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@mquinn](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mquinn)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/testing-ignition-without-a-web-browser/60204/3 "2022-05-31T20:10:56Z")

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Perfect, thank you. I knew it was something simple I was missing, you just saved me a day of digging to figure that out.