What would the following cURL command look like as a generic (without cURL) http request?
feedUri="https://www.someservice.com/feeds\
?prettyprint=true"
curl $feedUri --silent \
--header "GData-Version: 2"
For example how could such an http request be expressed in the browser address bar? Partucluarly, how do I express the --header information if I were to just type out the plain http request?
I don't know of any browser that lets you specify header information in the address bar. I believe there are plug-ins that let you do this, but I don't have any experience with them.
Here is one for firefox that looks promising:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/967
Basically what you want to do is not a standard browser feature.
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I can curl a website URL by passing on some header params. I am trying to get the same result on the browser but I cannot build the URL for the browser in the right way.
My curl looks something similar
curl -X GET -u 'xyz#gmail.com' -H "app-key: some-keys" -H "account-email: procurement#gmail.com" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d 'paused=false' https://api.pingdom.com/api/2.1/checks
When prompted for the password, i can give the password and Iget the JSON response.
Now I try to build the same URL on my browser. The browser prompts for user name and password which I have already given.
Now my URL looks like this.
https://api.pingdom.com/api/2.1/users?account-email=procurement#gmail.com&app-key=some-key
I get a forbidden (as JSON reponse) when I try from the browser and from Curl I get the proper JSON response.
How can I add header params to a URL when pinging from the browser?
How can I add header params to a URL when pinging from the browser?
That's not possible. Besides it, from the browser address bar you won't be able to use HTTP methods other than GET.
So I advise you to you proper tools to target/test your Web API such as Postman or Paw.
I want to know is there any way in which I can write http requests on my own just like I write sql queries for accessing a database. I mean I will type my own http request query in a text editor and it will provide me with the desired web resource. Is there any way for it??
IntelliJ IDEA has this functionality in .http files.
There is also a similar plugin to Visual Studio Code: https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient#readme
You can use this tool to try this out.
Also, did you try using cURL in Terminal or PowerShell. Something like this:
curl --request GET --url 'https://my.api.mockaroo.com/data.json?key=12345' --header 'content-type: : application/json' --header 'user-agent: vscode-restclient'
Is it possible to generate equivalent browser URL from all curl request.
Example :
If I am executing following
curl -v -X GET -H "Host:something.com" "http://foo.com/some?appAction=xux&a=1&b=2"
What will corresponding browser URL.(which I can hit directly in browser)
If by "equivalent" you mean "Using a host header claiming a different host than mentioned in the request URI", then the answer is: no, you can't. The browser will pull the host header from the entered URI.
You may be able to rewrite the headers using browser plugins.
I've tried this every which way, but, I cannot seem to get the syntax right (though I can make it work through a website such as hurl.it). I'm trying a basic HTTP POST request with CURL and I need it to do the following:
1.) Be able to do a very basic non-oauth login (username and password) to http://www.fake.site/create
2.) Send over a few HTTP headers such as "Host, Connection, Content-Length, User-Agent, etc."
3.) Be able to pass over 1 parameter in this format {"guid":"","style":"The Style Here"}
4.) Be able to follow a redirect(s)
I would appreciate any assistance you may have--I have literally been to over 5 pages of Google results and I just hit a snag at ever turn with my CURL code.
Help and Thank you!
curl -X POST -L
-u "auth-User:auth-password"
-d "{\"guid\":\"\",\"style\":\"The Style Here\"}"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
"http://www.fake.site/create"
You can add more headers through -H parameter if you want.
I am trying to find a tool that will allow me to test a multipart/form-data POST request and tweak the request. Specifically, I want to test the absence/presence of the semi-colon in the content-type header:
multipart/form-data; boundary=140f0f40c9f411e19b230800200c9a66
We have a client that doesn't send a semi-colon and our new servlet (using Apache Commons FileUpload) can't parse the uploaded file. The old version of our servlet uses a different library method for accepting/parsing the request and it can parse the file. Until I can prove that the request will be successful by including the semi-colon, the owners of the client app don't want to make any changes to it.
I have been using cURL to run my tests against the servlet, but I can't tweak the request it generates to exclude the semi-colon. I have tried the Poster addon for Firefox and Fiddler to generate a test POST request, but they result in this error:
org.apache.commons.fileupload.FileUploadException: Stream ended unexpectedly
Has anybody found a way to successfully test a multipart/form-data POST request with an uploaded file?
You can use curl for testing these libraries, here's an example using a multipart/form-data POST: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10765244/72176
One thing I like about a command-line tool like curl is it's easy to repeat (in bash, up & enter), and you can save the test for later.
Edit: It is definitely possible to send the custom header that you want to test. The key is to use curl's raw commands over the convenience methods which format the request for you. Use -H to pass in the raw header, and use --data-binary to pass in the body from a file without changing the line endings (very important for multipart/form-data which must have CRLF line endings). Here's an example:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------4ebf00fbcf09" --data-binary #test.txt http://localhost:3000/test
of if it's more convenient not to use the intermediary file, you can write it one line like so:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------------------4ebf00fbcf09" -d $'------------------------------4ebf00fbcf09\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name="example"\r\n\r\ntest\r\n------------------------------4ebf00fbcf09--\r\n' http://localhost:3000/test
These 2 examples include the semicolon, but you can remove it as needed.