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I'm looking at Stripe's cURL example for getting info on an event.
They have me do:
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/events/evt_123 \ -u sk_test_somekey: The documentation for cURL states that -u does USER:PASSWORD.
When I tried sending this as -d or as a query ?, Stripe's API says that I'm missing a header. This doesn't seem right.
I don't understand the lack of password after the username, either. If I send that cURL without the :, I am prompted for a password. Hitting enter (no characters inputted), gets me the expected response.
So, what exactly is -u doing so I can imitate this call in my code?
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What is a flag in Curl? A flag is a command-line parameter that denotes a specific action in Curl. Curl has over three hundred command-line options, and the number of options increases over time. You can add the listed flags to the Curl command and enter the URL.
curl (short for "Client URL") is a command line tool that enables data transfer over various network protocols. It communicates with a web or application server by specifying a relevant URL and the data that need to be sent or received. curl is powered by libcurl, a portable client-side URL transfer library.
If you just run curl example.com, the code displays in your terminal. To save it to a new file name instead, use the -o flag. This uses the lowercase 'o' character. The syntax would be curl -o <new-file-with-saved-code> <website-url>
curl -H is a command line option for the curl command that takes a single parameter of an extra header to include in the request.
curl -u encodes the username:password string into a base-64 string which is passed in the Authorization header, like so:
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com Accept: text/html Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= This isn't easy to skim, but it's not encryption either. Anyone with a base 64 decoder can see the username and password, so make sure you set up HTTPS.
Your HTTP library probably has a function that does this for you.
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