cURL send JSON as x-www-form-urlencoded [closed]

Question

I want to post the following JSON:

{
   "cities": {
       "chicago": 123,
       "boston": 245
   }
}

Using curl as x-www-form-urlencoded without using a .json file. I cannot figure out how to build the curl -F ...

Answer 1

For application/x-www-form-urlencoded you could try:

curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -X POST http://localhost:3000/blahblah

Where param1=value... have to be your JSON data as chicago=123&boston=245

Or explicit form:

curl -d "param1=value1&param2=value2" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST http://localhost:3000/blahblah

Instead of http://localhost:3000/blahblah you should provide real URL of your service.