

Or -compress, -x to compress the request body. You may also use -chunked to enable streaming via chunked transfer encoding

If you provide Content-Length, then the request body is streamed without buffering. The universal method for passing request data is through redirected stdinīy default, stdin data is buffered and then with no further processing used as the request body. There are three methods for passing raw request data: piping via stdin, These two approaches for specifying request data (i.e., structured and raw) cannot be combined. In addition to crafting structured JSON and forms requests with the request items syntax, you can provide a raw request body that will be sent without further processing. The response headers are downloaded always, even if they are not part of the output Raw request body Therefore, bandwidth and time isn’t wasted downloading the body which you don’t care about. Since you are only printing the HTTP headers here, the connection to the server is closed as soon as all the response headers have been received. For example instead of using a static string as the value for some header, you can use operator Using file contents as values for specific fields is a very common use case, which can be achieved through adding the suffix to Raw request body is a mechanism for passing arbitrary request data. Note that the structured data fields aren’t the only way to specify request data: For example or With -form, the presence of a file field results in a -multipart request

Useful when sending JSON and one or more fields need to be a Boolean, Number, nested Object, or an Array, e.g., meals:='' or pies:= (note the quotes)įile upload fields available with -form, -f and -multipart. Request data fields to be serialized as a JSON object (default), to be form-encoded (with -form, -f), or to be serialized as multipart/form-data (with -multipart) X-API-Token:123Īppends the given name/value pair as a querystring parameter to the URL.
