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Twobard
Twobard

Reputation: 2583

POST JSON over CURL with basic authentication

I am using Curl from the command line to debug a small web API I am working on. The web API expects basic authentication and a JSON object as input (POST). Currently, this basic authentication works fine:

curl -i --user validuser:70e12a10-83c7-11e0-9d78-0800200c9a65 http://example.com/api.php

but I also want to send a JSON object as a POST request:

curl -i --user validuser:70e12a10-83c7-11e0-9d78-0800200c9a65 -X POST -d '{"person":{"name":"bob"}}' http://example.com/api.php

I'm getting a 400 Bad Request response with the above command, any ideas on how I bundle a JSON object in this POST request?

Upvotes: 31

Views: 94199

Answers (3)

4F2E4A2E
4F2E4A2E

Reputation: 2183

curl --request POST \
  --url http://host/api/content/ \
  --header 'authorization: Basic Esdfkjhsdft4934hdfksjdf'

Upvotes: 6

Jits
Jits

Reputation: 9728

Try it with:

curl -i --user validuser:70e12a10-83c7-11e0-9d78-0800200c9a65 -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -X POST -d '{"person":{"name":"bob"}}' http://mysite.com/api.php

I've removed the json= bit in the body content.

Alternatively, this post might be helpful: How to post JSON to PHP with curl

Upvotes: 59

Luca Matteis
Luca Matteis

Reputation: 29267

Don't use

$person = file_get_contents("php://input");

instead use

$person = $_POST['person'];

And if you're using curl from the command-line this is the syntax for wanting to POST json data:

curl -d 'person={"name":"bob"}'

Upvotes: 1

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