How to POST a XML file using cURL?

Question

I'm using a web interface that allows me to post stuff over a cURL request.

A sample post looks like this:

<status>A note</status>

But whenever I try to send this, it seems to not accept the XML

curl http://website.com/update -d '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><status>test</status>' -H 'Accept: application/xml' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/xml'  -u username:password

I can do any other type of requests, just sending this XML doesn't seem to work, am I doing something wrong here?

Solution

To send data (xml,json,text,etc) using curl you have to use POST method and add --data-urlencode parameter, like shown bellow:

curl -X POST http://website.com/update \
  --data-urlencode xml="<status>A note</status>" \
  -H 'Accept: application/xml' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
  -u username:password

or

curl -X POST http://website.com/update \
  --data-urlencode "<status>A note</status>" \
  -H 'Accept: application/xml' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
  -u username:password

If you want to send via GET i think you have to encode the string before calling curl command

Comments

[woutr_be]

Thanks a lot, that helped me out perfectly.

[gorp88]

How to send xml attribute in curl request any ideas?

[Flavio Cysne]

@gorp88 you could try one of these answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/1880009/… superuser.com/questions/149329/…

[gorp88]

@flavio thank you, but I had resolved my issue using "\" escape character in xml string for attributes.