Tool Curl

Tool- Curl

• Scripting : bash or shell scripting

• Installing curl utility on Linux

curl flags

• -c : cookie

• -A : User Agant

• -X : HTTP MEthod(GET/POST/PUT/DELETE)

• -H : header

• -d : data

• -s : silent

• -v : verbose

• -o : output

• Sending GET Request via Curl

  curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://localhost:3000/employees"

• Sending POST Request via Curl

  curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name": "Lisa","salary": "2000"}' "http://localhost:3000/employees"

• Sending PUT Request via Curl

  curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name": "Lisa", "salary": "8000"}' "http://localhost:3000/employees/3"

• Sending DELETE Request via Curl

  curl -X DELETE -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://localhost:3000/employees/2"

• Saving cookies and Using in subsequent requests

  curl -c cookies.txt www.example.com

  Note: in abobe cookies will be saved into cookies.txt file