curl-post-basics.md

cURL POST

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# Basic POST request
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/resource

# Post with form data
curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:8080/resource

# Post data with json content type
curl -d '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2"}' -h "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:8080/resource

# Verbose
curl -v -X POST http://localhost:8080/resource

# Write output to file
curl -o abc.txt -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:8080/resource