How to send POST with body, headers, and HTTP params using cURL

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I found a lot of examples on how to use simple POST commands in cURL, but I didn't find examples on how to send full HTTP POST commands, which contain:

  • Headers (Basic Authentication)
  • HTTP Params (s=1&r=33)
  • Body Data, some XML string

All I found is:

echo "this is body" | curl -d "ss=ss&qq=11" http://localhost/

That doesn't work, and it sends the HTTP parameters as the body.

Best Answer

Not enough reputation to comment so leave this as an answer hoping it help.

curl -L -v --post301 --post302 -i -X PUT -T "${aclfile}"  \
  -H "Date: ${dateValue}" \
  -H "Content-Type: ${contentType}" \
  -H "Authorization: AWS ${s3Key}:${signature}" \
  ${host}:${port}${resource}

This is what I used for a S3 bucket acl put operation. Headers are in -H and body which is a xml file is in ${aclfile} following -T. You can see that from the output:

/aaa/?acl
* About to connect() to 192.168.57.101 port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 192.168.57.101...
* Connected to 192.168.57.101 (192.168.57.101) port 80 (#0)
> PUT /aaa/?acl HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: 192.168.57.101
> Accept: */*
> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:01:44 GMT
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
> Authorization: AWS WFBZ1S6SO0DZHW2LRM6U:r84lr/lPO0JCpfk5M3GRJfHdUgQ=
> Content-Length: 323
> Expect: 100-continue
>
< HTTP/1.1 100 CONTINUE
HTTP/1.1 100 CONTINUE

* We are completely uploaded and fine
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< x-amz-request-id: tx00000000000000000001f-0057b56b69-31d42-default
x-amz-request-id: tx00000000000000000001f-0057b56b69-31d42-default
< Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Type: application/xml
< Content-Length: 0
Content-Length: 0
< Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:01:45 GMT
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:01:45 GMT

<
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.57.101 left intact

if url params contain special signs like "+", use --data-urlencode for every param (containing special signs) of them:

curl -G -H "Accept:..." -H "..." --data-urlencode "beginTime=${time}+${zone}" --data-urlencode "endTime=${time}+${zone}" "${url}"
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