CURL Command Line URL Parameters

Question

I am trying to send a DELETE request with a url parameter using CURL  I am doing   curl -H application x-www-form-urlencoded -X DELETE http   localhost 5000 locations  -d  id 3    However  the server is not seeing the parameter id   3  I tried using some GUI application and when I pass the url as  http   localhost 5000 locations id 3  it works  I really would rather use CURL rather than this GUI application  Can anyone please point out what I m doing wrong

User · Accepted Answer

The application x-www-form-urlencoded Content-type header is not needed    Unless the request handler expects the parameters coming from request body    Try it out  curl -X DELETE  quot http   localhost 5000 locations id 3 quot   or curl -X GET  quot http   localhost 5000 locations id 3 quot

User · Answer

Felipsmartins is correct   It is worth mentioning that it is because you cannot really use the -d --data option if this is not a POST request  But this is still possible if you use the -G option   Which means you can do this   curl -X DELETE -G  http   localhost 5000 locations  -d  id 3    Here it is a bit silly but when you are on the command line and you have a lot of parameters  it is a lot tidier   I am saying this because cURL commands are usually quite long  so it is worth making it on more than one line escaping the line breaks   curl -X DELETE -G    http   localhost 5000 locations    -d id 3   -d name Mario   -d surname Bros   This is obviously a lot more comfortable if you use zsh  I mean when you need to re-edit the previous command because zsh lets you go line by line   just saying   Hope it helps

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