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How to Easily use cURL for HTTP Requests

Aditya Sridhar on November 19, 2018

Originally published in adityasridhar.com Every developer needs to know a bunch of tools to be effective. cURL in one such tool 😄 In this article...
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Peter Benjamin (they/them) • • Edited

Nice introduction to cURL!
Tiny nitpick: you can wrap your payload (i.e. -d) in single quotes to avoid having to escape inner double quotes.
Example:

$ curl -H “Content-Type: application/json“ -d ‘{ “value”: “node.js” }’ https://localhost:3000/test
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Aditya Sridhar •

Thank you :)

Actually I tried single quotes initially. Works well in mac, but in windows it threw an error. So switched it back to double quotes :D

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Peter Benjamin (they/them) •

Huh, didn't know that.
Thanks for the info.

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chenge •

How about postman app?

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David J Eddy •

IMO, always learn and understand a tool via the CLI first. Then pick a GUI of your choice.

"CLI, everything else is abstraction" - DJE

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Aditya Sridhar • • Edited

POSTMAN is great too. I use that a lot. But I feel knowing curl always helps :D