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# CURL

* XML GET

```bash
curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X GET "http://hostname/resource"
```

* JSON GET

```bash
curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET "http://hostname/resource"
```

* JSON PUT

```bash
curl -i -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -X PUT -d '{"updated_field1":"updated_value1"}' "http://hostname/resourcex"
```

* JSON POST uploading a file

```bash
curl -i -H 'Accept: application/json' -X POST -F "filename=@/file/path" -F "other_field=its_value"   "http://hostname/resource"
```

* JSON DELETE

```bash
curl -i -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -X DELETE -d '{"key1":"value1"}' "http://hostname/resource"
```

* POST

```bash
curl -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'key1=value1&key2=value2' url
```

* "Debugging mode" (without actual content output):

```bash
curl -XGET -vvv http://hostname/resource > dev\null
```

* Custom UserAgent:

```bash
curl -A "some-user-agent" http://hostname/resource
```

#### Useful arguments

* `-k`: not check SSL certificates
* `-L`: follow redirects
* `-v`: get verbose output
* `-V`: get headers at output