Having trouble escaping quotes and braces

Question

I am trying to execute the following line in Command Prompt:

curl -X POST -d '{ "method" : "account_info", "params" : [ { "account" : "rHb9CJAWyB4rj91VRWn96DkukG4bwdtyTh"} ] }' http://s1.ripple.com:51234

However, I get the following:

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: method
curl: (7) Failed connect to :80; No error
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: account_info,
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: params
curl: (7) Failed connect to :80; No error
curl: (3) [globbing] illegal character in range specification at pos 2
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace at pos 2
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: account
curl: (7) Failed connect to :80; No error
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 35
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket at pos 1
unable to parse request

I am on Windows, and the error has to do with quotes, braces, and globbing. I tried escaping quotes by preceding them with a backslash, with no luck.

Answer 1

Do not use single quotes. Escape any double quotes within the string with a \.

curl -X POST -d "{ \"method\" : \"account_info\", \"params\" : [ { \"account\" : \"rHb9CJAWyB4rj91VRWn96DkukG4bwdtyTh\"} ] }" http://s1.ripple.com:51234

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Window's command.exe doesn't seem to support single quotes. PowerShell does, but there are still some problems when using them, so the best solution is to not use them at all.

Answer 2

You can use curl -g to turn off globbing:

curl -g -X POST -d '{ "method" : "account_info", "params" : [ { "account" : "rHb9CJAWyB4rj91VRWn96DkukG4bwdtyTh"} ] }' http://s1.ripple.com:51234

Easier than escaping all those brackets.

Answer 3

Try the basic one to post something.

curl -X POST --data '{"username":"username", "password":"password"}' --header "Content-Type:application/json" http://127.0.0.1:8000/your_url/

Answer 4

For windows users: you can download git bash for running the below curl command.

curl http://localhost:8080/subpage --include --header "Content-Type: application/json" --request "POST" --data '{"variable": "value"}

Answer 5

In the above responses, it is important to note that data are specified in JSON format, which should require to specify --header as Alok's answer.

It is also possible to define it in "url" format like this:

curl -X POST --data "method=account_info&params=[…]" http://s1.ripple.com:51234

and avoid specifying --header "Content-Type…"