REST API - works in chrome but curl did not work - http

Question

I am using a web service API.
http://www.douban.com/j/app/radio/people?app_name=radio_desktop_win&version=100&user_id=&expire=&token=&sid=&h=&channel=1&type=n
Typing that address into the chrome, expected result (json file containing song information) could be returned but when using curl it failed. (in both case,response code is OK but the response body is not correct in the later case )
Here are the request info dumped using the Chrome developer tool:
Request URL:http://www.douban.com/j/app/radio/people?app_name=radio_desktop_win&version=100&user_id=&expire=&token=&sid=&h=&channel=7&type=n
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Request Headersview source
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:zh-CN,zh;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:bid="lwaJyClu5Zg"
Host:www.douban.com
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Query String Parametersview sourceview URL encoded
app_name:radio_desktop_win
version:100
user_id:
expire:
token:
sid:
h:
channel:7
type:n
However, using that API with curl, i.e curl http://www.douban.com/j/app/radio/people?app_name=radio_desktop_win&version=100&user_id=&expire=&token=&sid=&h=&channel=7&type=n will not return expected result.
Even specifying the exactly header as what dumped from Chrome still failed.
curl -v -H "Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" -H "Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflat,sdcn" -H "Accept-Language:zh-CN,zh;q=0.8" -H "Cache-Control:max-age=0" -H "Connection:keep-alive" -H "Host:www.douban.com" -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36" http://www.douban.com/j/app/radio/people?app_name=radio_desktop_win&version=100&user_id=&expire=&token=&sid=&h=&channel=7&type=n
Below is what print out with -v from curl. Seems everything was identical with the request made by Chrome but still the response body is not correct.
GET /j/app/radio/people?app_name=radio_desktop_win HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflat,sdcn
Accept-Language:zh-CN,zh;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:www.douban.com
Why this happened? Appreciate your help.

Answer 1

You need to put quotes around that url in the shell. Otherwise the &s are going to cause trouble.
Another common problem: you may be using an HTTP proxy with Chrome. If so, you need to tell curl about this proxy as well. You can do so by setting the environmental variable http_proxy.