How do I POST XML data with curl

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I want to post XML data with cURL  I don t care about forms like said in How do I make a post request with curl   I want to post XML content to some webservice using cURL command line interface  Something like   curl -H  text xml  -d   lt XmlContainer xmlns  sads      http   myapiurl com service svc    The above sample however cannot be processed by the service     Reference example in C    WebRequest req   HttpWebRequest Create  http   myapiurl com service svc     req Method    POST   req ContentType    text xml   using Stream s   req GetRequestStream          using  StreamWriter sw   new StreamWriter s           sw Write myXMLcontent     using  Stream s   req GetResponse   GetResponseStream          using  StreamReader sr   new StreamReader s           MessageBox Show sr ReadToEnd

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You can try the following solution   curl -v -X POST -d  payload xml https    lt API Path gt  -k -H  Content-Type  application xml charset utf-8

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-H  text xml  isn t a valid header  You need to provide the full header   -H  Content-Type  text xml

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It is simpler to use a file  req xml in my case  with content you want to send -- like this   curl -H  Content-Type  text xml  -d  req xml -X POST http   localhost asdf  You should consider using type  application xml   too  differences explained here   Alternatively  without needing making curl actually read the file  you can use cat to spit the file into the stdout and make curl to read from stdout like this   cat req xml   curl -H  Content-Type  text xml  -d  - -X POST http   localhost asdf  Both examples should produce identical service output

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I prefer the following command-line options   cat req xml   curl -X POST -H  Content-type  text xml  -d  - http   www example com   or   curl -X POST -H  Content-type  text xml  -d  req xml http   www example com   or   curl -X POST -H  Content-type  text xml   -d   lt XML gt data lt  XML gt   http   www example com

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Have you tried url-encoding the data   cURL can take care of that for you    curl -H  Content-type  text xml  --data-urlencode   lt XmlContainer xmlns  sads      http   myapiurl com service svc

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