Ganesh Joshi

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curl commands

Updated 2026-02-15

curl flags for HTTP requests: GET, POST, headers, auth, and file upload. Debug APIs from the terminal.

Basic requests

```
curl https://api.example.com
```
GET request.

curl -X POST -d '{"a":1}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' URL

POST JSON.

```
curl -X PUT -d @file.json URL
```
PUT with file body.
```
curl -X DELETE URL
```
DELETE request.

Headers and auth

```
curl -H 'Header: value' URL
```
Add header.
```
curl -u user:pass URL
```
Basic auth.

curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer TOKEN' URL

Bearer token.

```
curl -v URL
```
Verbose output.
```
curl -i URL
```
Include response headers.

Files and redirect

```
curl -o file URL
```
Save to file.
```
curl -L URL
```
Follow redirects.
```
curl -F 'file=@path' URL
```
Multipart form upload.

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