Curl has https support but when used it claims that it is not supported

Question

I am trying to get stormpath working with curl.

curl -X POST --user $YOUR_API_KEY_ID:$YOUR_API_KEY_SECRET \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
       "givenName": "Jean-Luc",
       "surname": "Picard",
       "username": "jlpicard",
       "email": "capt@enterprise.com",
       "password":"Changeme1"
    }' \      "https://api.stormpath.com/v1/applications/$YOUR_APPLICATION_ID/accounts"

When I try this I get the message:

curl: (1) Protocol  https not supported or disabled in libcurl

To see what curl supports I ran curl -V:

curl 7.30.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0) libcurl/7.30.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz

As you can see https is a supported protocol. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew

Answer 1

I found it. On the last line I have a backslash that was for line continuation and I continued on the same line:

}' \      "https://api.stormpath.com/v1/applications/$YOUR_APPLICATION_ID/accounts"

Once I took the backslash out it worked! :)

}'  "https://api.stormpath.com/v1/applications/$YOUR_APPLICATION_ID/accounts"

Hope that helps someone.

Andrew