Ubuntu – How to send GET and POST requests using Curl

Seems like you following a tutorial or book and this is a cheeky way to test if you got the basics down.

Calling http://103.200.7.150:7777/ via curl or browser yields the following output:

Please send me request method GET and POST with params "gimmeflag" and value "please"

Let's break it down into two parts since you want to know how its done with curl (see man 1 curl or the curl manual).

Using GET to send your request:

This one is pretty easy if you know how a query-string looks like.

On the World Wide Web, a query string is the part of a uniform resource locator (URL) containing data that does not fit conveniently into a hierarchical path structure. The query string commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or other client application, for example as part of an HTML form.

A web server can handle a Hypertext Transfer Protocol request either by reading a file from its file system based on the URL path or by handling the request using logic that is specific to the type of resource. In cases where special logic is invoked, the query string will be available to that logic for use in its processing, along with the path component of the URL.(source)

You want to send a parameter gimmeflag and a value please. So the line you want to request with curl is :

curl -X GET http://103.200.7.150:7777/?gimmeflag=please

The result you get back from the server:

KSL{n0w_y0u_Know_How_To

Using POST to send your request:

Given the GET line the POST is pretty easy too just replace GET by POST:

curl -X POST http://103.200.7.150:7777/?gimmeflag=please

The result you get back from the server:

_S3nD_r3quesT_Meth0d_GET_AND_POST}

To conclude this:

# Thanks to @pa4080 for this line
printf '%s%s\n' \
"$(curl -X GET http://103.200.7.150:7777/?gimmeflag=please 2>/dev/null)" \
"$(curl -X POST http://103.200.7.150:7777/?gimmeflag=please 2>/dev/null)"

KSL{n0w_y0u_Know_How_To_S3nD_r3quesT_Meth0d_GET_AND_POST}