Why do I get a malformed JSON in request body in this cURL call?

Question

I have been trying to call the CloudFlare API v4, using an example provided in their own documentation.

This is the code of the example

curl -X PUT \         


        

Answer 1

cmd.exe doesn't support single quotes, to run those commands straight from the docs you can use Bash.

Bash can be enabled in Windows 10 : https://www.laptopmag.com/uk/articles/use-bash-shell-windows-10

or Git Bash comes with Git for windows: https://gitforwindows.org/

Answer 2

Frank.Lowell, thank you for question!

I found the answer in the blog post: "Expecting to find valid JSON in request body..." curl for Windows.

For example, for Purge everything --data value will be:

# On Linux
--data '{"purge_everything":true}'

# On Windows
--data "{\"purge_everything\":true}"

For Windows:

1. Replace the single quotes with double quotes: ' --> "
2. Escape the double quotes with a backslash: " --> \"