Comments on: REST-esting with cURL http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/ It's easy if you know how Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:25:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: EddieS http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2029 EddieS Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:25:40 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2029 A few aliases for bash if you're lazy like me ;) <code> #= REST cURL tests # rest-get http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1 alias rest-get="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\"" # rest-post "firstName=james" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person alias rest-post="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X POST -d " # rest-put "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1 alias rest-put="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X PUT -d " # rest-delete http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1 alias rest-delete="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X DELETE " # rest-post-put "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1 alias rest-post-put="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT\" -X POST -d " # rest-post-delete http://192.168.0.3:8090/persons/person/1 alias rest-post-delete="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE\" -X POST " </code> A few aliases for bash if you’re lazy like me ;)


#= REST cURL tests

# rest-get http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1
alias rest-get="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\""

# rest-post "firstName=james" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person
alias rest-post="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X POST -d "

# rest-put "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1
alias rest-put="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X PUT -d "

# rest-delete http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1
alias rest-delete="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -X DELETE "

# rest-post-put "phone=1-800-999-9999" http://192.168.0.165/persons/person/1
alias rest-post-put="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT\" -X POST -d "

# rest-post-delete http://192.168.0.3:8090/persons/person/1
alias rest-post-delete="curl -i -H \"Accept: application/json\" -H \"X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE\" -X POST "

]]> By: roshanallan http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2026 roshanallan Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:50:10 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2026 <blockquote cite="siva"> i want to know how to use CURL to pass a Request body to a REST Server. when I send with -d I get an error “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” is not supported” </blockquote> What REST server are you using? Check that the REST Resource you are invoking to confirm that it can accept POST methods

i want to know how to use CURL to pass a Request body to a REST Server. when I send with -d I get an error “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” is not supported”

What REST server are you using? Check that the REST Resource you are invoking to confirm that it can accept POST methods

]]> By: siva http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2025 siva Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:38:51 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2025 i want to know how to use CURL to pass a Request body to a REST Server. when I send with -d I get an error "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" is not supported" i want to know how to use CURL to pass a Request body to a REST Server. when I send with -d I get an error “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” is not supported”

]]> By: roshanallan http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2016 roshanallan Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:24:18 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2016 <blockquote cite="Sameer"> I am not able to use the delete command of CURL curl -v -X DELETE http://198.45.22.153/gradeguru-api/me/grades/48?access_token=“access token” The above command says Rcv failure, connection was reset, however if I use localhost in place of the above URL, it deletes the record. </blockquote> Is 198.45.22.153 the IP address of your local machine (localhost)? It could be due to the connection timing out. You may want to test further to figure out this issur

I am not able to use the delete command of CURL

curl -v -X DELETE http://198.45.22.153/gradeguru-api/me/grades/48?access_token=“access token”

The above command says Rcv failure, connection was reset, however if I use localhost in place of the above URL, it deletes the record.

Is 198.45.22.153 the IP address of your local machine (localhost)?
It could be due to the connection timing out. You may want to test further to figure out this issur

]]> By: roshanallan http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 roshanallan Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:08:50 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2015 James, I'm not aware of any directory of various REST apis. But I can point you to websites that expose their application functions via REST. Google Storage is a good example. So is Netflix - http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Introducing_the_Netflix_API. James,
I’m not aware of any directory of various REST apis. But I can point you to websites that expose their application functions via REST. Google Storage is a good example. So is Netflix – http://developer.netflix.com/blog/read/Introducing_the_Netflix_API.

]]> By: james http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 james Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:55:52 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2014 hi, i am looking to run a small experiment on REST services, do you know of a directory of publicly available services, or any other way of gathering as many REST service addresses as possible? thanks! jnahon AT gmail DOT com hi,
i am looking to run a small experiment on REST services, do you know of a directory of publicly available services, or any other way of gathering as many REST service addresses as possible?

thanks!

jnahon AT gmail DOT com

]]> By: Sameer http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Sameer Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:50:51 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2013 The above command says Rcv failure, connection was reset, however if I use localhost in place of the above URL, it deletes the record. Please help! The above command says Rcv failure, connection was reset, however if I use localhost in place of the above URL, it deletes the record.

Please help!

]]> By: Sameer http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-2012 Sameer Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:49:36 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-2012 I am not able to use the delete command of CURL curl -v -X DELETE http://198.45.22.153/gradeguru-api/me/grades/48?access_token="access token" I am not able to use the delete command of CURL

curl -v -X DELETE http://198.45.22.153/gradeguru-api/me/grades/48?access_token=“access token”

]]> By: Hai Vu http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-1860 Hai Vu Thu, 13 May 2010 15:53:17 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-1860 Thank you for your concise post. It helps greatly, especially the POST request. Thank you for your concise post. It helps greatly, especially the POST request.

]]> By: Curious » REST-esting with cURL: File Handling http://blogs.plexibus.com/2009/01/15/rest-esting-with-curl/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Curious » REST-esting with cURL: File Handling Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:22:59 +0000 http://blogs.plexibus.com/?p=29#comment-1749 [...] For more examples using cURL for testing web services, see here. [...] [...] For more examples using cURL for testing web services, see here. [...]

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