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pg2455
pg2455

Reputation: 5148

Curl -d : Contents of the file must be URL Encoded

I have an app running in Python using Flask.

The endpoint of the API looks like this:

@app.route('/postIt', methods =['POST'])
def postReview():
    #print flask.request
    if flask.request.method == 'POST':
        posts  = flask.request.get_json()
        print posts
    return str(posts)

I am trying to send it request using CURL:

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/postIt -d @post.json -H "Content-Type: application/json"

where post.json looks like this:

{"post1":"3", "post2": "2", "post3":"3", "post4":"4" "post5": "5"}

This is not working well. Output on server side prints nothing implying that it is unable to get the json file that I am sending.

I looked into -d flag of CURL and found this thing:

The contents of the file must  already  be URL-encoded.

So I am guessing there must be encoding issues with my post.json file. I don't exactly know which encoding should be used here. Please help!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (1)

ljk321
ljk321

Reputation: 16770

When I tried your code, I got 400 Bad Request:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<title>400 Bad Request</title>
<h1>Bad Request</h1>
<p>The browser (or proxy) sent a request that this server could not understand.</p>

Then I found that your json file is actually not valid. There is a missing , between post4 and post5. After fixing it, I got the correct response:

{u'post5': u'5', u'post4': u'4', u'post3': u'3', u'post2': u'2', u'post1': u'3'}%

Upvotes: 1

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