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I am building a web service for a web application, and I would like a simple tool to test this as I am developing. I have tried some firefox plug-ins (Poster, 'REST Client'), and even though these work fine I have been unable to upload files with them.
Also, I would rather have a command-line tool that I can use to easily write a set of integration tests for this web service and that I can send to consumers of this web service as an example.
I know that curl can work for this but would like a few examples, especially around authentication (using HTTP Basic) and file uploads.
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The syntax for the curl command is as follows: curl [options] [URL...] In its simplest form, when invoked without any option, curl displays the specified resource to the standard output. The command will print the source code of the example.com homepage in your terminal window.
cURL, which stands for client URL, is a command line tool that developers use to transfer data to and from a server. At the most fundamental, cURL lets you talk to a server by specifying the location (in the form of a URL) and the data you want to send.
To test a SOAP web service, we just need to make HTTP requests with a SOAP envelope in the request body. We don't need to specify that we're using HTTP because it's the default protocol in cURL. Since we're testing the request, we use the verbose mode via the -v option.
Answering my own question.
curl -X GET --basic --user username:password \ https://www.example.com/mobile/resource curl -X DELETE --basic --user username:password \ https://www.example.com/mobile/resource curl -X PUT --basic --user username:password -d 'param1_name=param1_value' \ -d 'param2_name=param2_value' https://www.example.com/mobile/resource POSTing a file and additional parameter
curl -X POST -F 'param_name=@/filepath/filename' \ -F 'extra_param_name=extra_param_value' --basic --user username:password \ https://www.example.com/mobile/resource In addition to existing answers it is often desired to format the REST output (typically JSON and XML lacks indentation). Try this:
$ curl https://api.twitter.com/1/help/configuration.xml | xmllint --format - $ curl https://api.twitter.com/1/help/configuration.json | python -mjson.tool Tested on Ubuntu 11.0.4/11.10.
Another issue is the desired content type. Twitter uses .xml/.json extension, but more idiomatic REST would require Accept header:
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