DELETE using CURL with encoded URL

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coffee picture coffee · Oct 4, 2012 · Viewed 74.6k times · Source

I’m trying to make a request using CURL like this:

curl -X DELETE "https://myhost/context/path/users/OXYugGKg207g5uN/07V"

where OXYugGKg207g5uN/07V is a hash, so I suppose that I need to encode before do this request.

I have tried curl -X DELETE --data-urlenconded "https://myhost/context/path/users/OXYugGKg207g5uN/07V"

Some ideas?

Answer

knugie picture knugie · Aug 8, 2014

Try this

curl -X DELETE "https://myhost/context/path/users/$(echo -ne "OXYugGKg207g5uN/07V" | xxd -plain | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/\(..\)/%\1/g')"

It is equivilent to

curl -X DELETE "https://myhost/context/path/users/%4f%58%59%75%67%47%4b%67%32%30%37%67%35%75%4e%2f%30%37%56"

Here, every character is replaced by its byte respresentation... I don't think it is particularly pretty, but it works.

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