RESTful helper script

I find this script useful working on modern RESTful services. It shows both the headers and the formatted JSON response body. The idea is that most times you provide a URL and want to see the full response. If you need extra flags for curl just add them (e.g., user/password). If you want to customize jq—say, filter for just a particular piece of the response—use a double-dash ("--") to separate curl and jq arguments:

An example with Spring Boot (plus some custom actuator endpoints). Note "jq" colorizes the output on the command line (below is plain text):

$ ~/bin/jurlq http://localhost:8081/remote-hello/health
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
X-Application-Context: remote-hello:8081
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:28:07 GMT

{
  "status": "UP",
  "cpu": {
    "status": "UP",
    "processors": 8,
    "system-loadavg": -1,
    "process-cpu-load": 0.22963892677420872,
    "process-cpu-time": "PT42.71875S",
    "system-cpu-load": -1
  },
  "file": {
    "status": "UP",
    "usable-disk": 55486464000,
    "total-disk": 299694551040
  },
  "java": {
    "status": "UP",
    "start-time": "2015-12-21T07:27:06.970-06:00",
    "uptime-beats": 0,
    "vm-name": "Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM",
    "vm-vendor": "Oracle Corporation",
    "vm-version": "25.66-b17"
  },
  "memory": {
    "status": "UP",
    "committed-virtual-memory": 991350784,
    "free-physical-memory": 1952854016,
    "free-swap-space": 1203003392,
    "total-physical-memory": 8540618752,
    "total-swap-space": 10354229248
  },
  "os": {
    "status": "UP",
    "arch": "amd64",
    "name": "Windows 10",
    "version": "10.0"
  },
  "threads": {
    "status": "UP",
    "count": 22,
    "daemon-count": 20,
    "peak-count": 22,
    "started-count": 26
  },
  "diskSpace": {
    "status": "UP",
    "free": 55486464000,
    "threshold": 10485760
  },
  "configServer": {
    "status": "UNKNOWN",
    "error": "no property sources located"
  },
  "hystrix": {
    "status": "UP"
  }
}

UPDATE: Tried Github Gist for the source, but it does not show in my blog feed reader. Here's the script:

#!/bin/bash

curl_args=()
for arg
do
    case "$arg" in
    -- ) shift ; break ;;
    * ) curl_args=("${curl_args[@]}" "$arg") ; shift ;;
    esac
done

jq_args=("${@-.}")

curl -s -D - "${curl_args[@]}" | tr -d '\r' | {
    while read line
    do
        case "$line" in
        '' ) echo ; break ;;
        * ) echo "$line" ;;
        esac
    done

    exec jq "${jq_args[@]}"
}