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I'm using cURL to connect to a remote host. Some of my commands execute just fine (like authentication via POST and pulling information via GET). I'm getting a weird error when trying to use a POST to add information with regards to content length. This is my syntax;
curl -k -i -b sessionid -X POST https://hostname/BeyondTrust/api/public/v3/Workgroups/apiTest/Assets?AssetName=string&DnsName=string&DomainName=string -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: PS-Auth key=b8e1...2c27; runas=userName; pwd=[password]" -d ""
This is my output;
[1] 58164
[2] 58165
-bash: -H: command not found
[2]+ Done DnsName=string
HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:29:12 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 344
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Length Required</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></HEAD>
<BODY><h2>Length Required</h2>
<hr><p>HTTP Error 411. The request must be chunked or have a content length.</p>
</BODY></HTML>
I've researched it, and this is a common problem, apparently. -d "" does not fix and have tried --ignore-content-length and Content-Length: 0 in the headers, but I still have the same issue. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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You need to quote the URL because it contains some special shell characters.
This output tells you something went wrong:
[1] 58164
[2] 58165
-bash: -H: command not found
[2]+ Done DnsName=string
Your command got split into multiple jobs and resulted in some errors because of the & in the URL's query string.
Putting the URL in double-quotes " will fix the issue.
curl -k -i -b sessionid \
-X POST \
"https://hostname/BeyondTrust/api/public/v3/Workgroups/apiTest/Assets?AssetName=string&DnsName=string&DomainName=string"
This way your URL will be interpreted properly and the shell won't try to start it in the background.
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