Escaping curl command in Windows

Question

I\'m trying to run a curl command from the command line in Windows, but for the life of me I can\'t figure out how I\'m supposed to escape it.

I\'m exec

Answer 1

Quoting is hell. By "Windows Command Line and your prompt I presume you mean cmd.com ?. That doest quote the same as linux shells.

For this simplistic experiment I recommend going for 2 kinds of quotes to avoid escaping But even then its unlikely to work

curl --anyauth --user user:password -X POST -d "{'rest-api':{'name':'BizSimDebug3'}}" -H "Content-type: application/xml" http://localhost:8002/v1/rest-apis

Better luck might be had by going with a unix-like shell such as running cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) or maybe xmlsh (www.xmlsh.org) which escape like linux does.

You really are going to have a nightmare running anything complex through the windows command line natively.

-David

Answer 2

This works in Windows:

 
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"Field1\": 123, \"Field2\": 456 }" "http://localhost:8080"
 

Answer 3

The XDMP-DOCROOTTEXT error indicates the server is trying to parse the payload as XML and failing.

The Content-Type header is telling the server that you're sending XML, but the payload is JSON.

Try changing the Content-Type header to application/json