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If you are logged into the same machine as your Splunk instance and have wget installed, you can copy and paste the following command into your terminal:

wget -O - -q --no-check-certificate https://localhost:8089/services/

The -O - tells wget you want the response sent to standard output. The --no-check-certificate tells wget that you want it to ignore critical certificate error, which you'll have if you don't have a valid certificate.

You should see an XML formatted ATOM response returned:

root@foobar [~]# wget -O - -q --no-check-certificate https://localhost:8089/services/
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="/static/atom.xsl"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:s="http://dev.splunk.com/ns/rest">
  <title>services</title>
  <id>https://localhost:8089/services/</id>
  <updated>2008-01-31T19:15:37-0600</updated>
  <generator version="31749"/>
  <author>
    <name>Splunk</name>
  </author>
  <entry>
    <title>streams</title>
    <id>https://localhost:8089/services/streams</id>
    <updated>2008-01-31T19:15:37-0600</updated>
    <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/streams" rel="alternate"/>
  </entry>
...
...
</feed>

Note: In versions 3.1.x and earlier, Splunk's REST endpoints were served off the SplunkWeb process using the http://yourhost:8000/v3/ URL format. If you are coding against an older version of Splunk, you will need to reference the older documentation for the deprecated /v3/ endpoints. You can't use a /v3 auth token with the /services endpoints.

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