request-headers-checker/install-instructions.md

Debian-based Linux Install (Ubuntu, Mint, etc)

• Obtain the latest .deb from Github Releases
• Navigate to where the .deb was downloaded to (ie. ~/Downloads) cd ~/Downloads && ls *.deb
• If you see reqhead.deb, install via apt: apt install ./reqhead.deb
• Note that apt will not auto-install new versions! To see when new versions are released, click Watch at the top of this page and Github/Not a Bug will show it in your dashboard feed

To update a previous .deb installed version

• Repeat the download instructions above, apt will automatically install over the previous version.

Non-Debian Install

Dependencies

• Python 3+
• Pip3

From the Python standard library:

• argparse
• json
• pprint
• socket
• ssl
• sys

Pip3:

• Requests

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/angela-d/request-headers-checker && cd request-headers-checker

Install the pip dependency:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

To run it:

./reqhead

You will be prompted to enter the URL you wish to validate.

Done.