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My question:
Getting “Error while importing Curl: Please check your cURL string for malformed URL” when trying to paste as raw text by copying as cURL
Details (like screenshots):
How I found the problem:
While copy paste curl (v9.25.1)
I’ve already tried:
There isn’t much information to go off here…
Can you copy in your curl command or screenshot what you are seeing?
Please find the attached screenshot here
Steps i tried to perform is
intercept api call from any browser->Right click on api call->copy as cURL->Go to postman(Version 9.25.1)->Import->paste as raw text
Find below cuRL which im trying to import
curl 'https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=forgot' -X POST -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0' -H 'Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8' -H 'Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' -H 'Referer: https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=viewForgot' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' -H 'Origin: https://dashboard.webengage.com' -H 'Connection: keep-alive' -H 'Cookie: _gcl_au=1.1.1986184960.1657088792; _ga_3NGD3E18DP=GS1.1.1658399710.9.1.1658402356.40; _ga=GA1.2.1335907703.1657088792; _fbp=fb.1.1657088793592.1171718870; _lfa=LF1.1.95970d176bb673c4.1658374747421; OptanonConsent=isIABGlobal=false&datestamp=Thu+Jul+21+2022+16%3A48%3A56+GMT%2B0530+(India+Standard+Time)&version=6.17.0&hosts=&consentId=e9ac56bd-9e04-499d-9368-bdd3e08bc1fe&interactionCount=1&landingPath=https%3A%2F%2Fwebengage.com%2F&groups=C0001%3A1%2CC0002%3A1%2CC0003%3A1%2CC0004%3A1%2CC0005%3A1; AWSALB=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; AWSALBCORS=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; _we_a_ssid=aaaR9Idsjad9T7_-9IBiy; _gid=GA1.2.735761338.1658374750; WebKlipperAuth=jz7SgX3zBNIMPRMGg5ni; _we_us=1658399711602; __adroll_fpc=98d019a6a7383b98d97c93bac311483a-1658399802896; __ar_v4=2II4J53FLRDUBGIZDUKWME%3A20220720%3A2%7C3GK5HOPAS5HOHC3TUOQ4X3%3A20220720%3A2%7CPOFEMBENINHV3FI44SIJLG%3A20220720%3A2; _clck=6qc1e8|1|f3c|0; _clsk=1x5o9dz|1658399803906|1|1|d.clarity.ms/collect; _uetsid=acc0897008a611edabba99d25eca0ad4; _uetvid=acc0773008a611eda9d601390f5ab28e; _gat_UA-28285682-1=1; drift_campaign_refresh=fa0834fd-34c3-445d-a141-91db4634cbfa' -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: document' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate' -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin' -H 'Sec-Fetch-User: ?1' -H 'TE: trailers' --data-raw 'url=&source=&authParams=&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=UHOV-7ELJ-Z7IY-5K80-RZ1G-YAHL-AUTB-4FQC&un=pritesh.pednekar%2B6%40webengage.com&active_region=us&we_region=us'
Are you copying as curl cmd or bash?
You should copy it as curl bash.
Note: make sure you are not selecting “copy all as”
If I put your curl command into this site:
It lets me output as curl bash and then I can import it into Postman.
The converted curl is;
curl -X POST https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=forgot -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0" -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" -H "Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.5" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Referer: https://dashboard.webengage.com/user/account.html?action=viewForgot" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -H "Origin: https://dashboard.webengage.com" -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Cookie: _gcl_au=1.1.1986184960.1657088792; _ga_3NGD3E18DP=GS1.1.1658399710.9.1.1658402356.40; _ga=GA1.2.1335907703.1657088792; _fbp=fb.1.1657088793592.1171718870; _lfa=LF1.1.95970d176bb673c4.1658374747421; OptanonConsent=isIABGlobal=false&datestamp=Thu+Jul+21+2022+16%3A48%3A56+GMT%2B0530+(India+Standard+Time)&version=6.17.0&hosts=&consentId=e9ac56bd-9e04-499d-9368-bdd3e08bc1fe&interactionCount=1&landingPath=https%3A%2F%2Fwebengage.com%2F&groups=C0001%3A1%2CC0002%3A1%2CC0003%3A1%2CC0004%3A1%2CC0005%3A1; AWSALB=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; AWSALBCORS=ZbklkJFuch+wycjcXTKO9BCwzmoLZ9JbRSqg0M5wC+tgWTnEOAEMCRliCpPTbSGDYMoQx3/1Qzjpnr/phs/ZKSmI31KDz0uPAsvLpUqU9Zs0cyP5Yh7euA19wiRhUT20YWM4yBqw2ReDe3JNVMWUXxmlCQTRTnwO+meL/D4N2m5Ys4T3g9cUlWsneQPHEQ==; _we_a_ssid=aaaR9Idsjad9T7_-9IBiy; _gid=GA1.2.735761338.1658374750; WebKlipperAuth=jz7SgX3zBNIMPRMGg5ni; _we_us=1658399711602; __adroll_fpc=98d019a6a7383b98d97c93bac311483a-1658399802896; __ar_v4=2II4J53FLRDUBGIZDUKWME%3A20220720%3A2%7C3GK5HOPAS5HOHC3TUOQ4X3%3A20220720%3A2%7CPOFEMBENINHV3FI44SIJLG%3A20220720%3A2; _clck=6qc1e8|1|f3c|0; _clsk=1x5o9dz|1658399803906|1|1|d.clarity.ms/collect; _uetsid=acc0897008a611edabba99d25eca0ad4; _uetvid=acc0773008a611eda9d601390f5ab28e; _gat_UA-28285682-1=1; drift_campaign_refresh=fa0834fd-34c3-445d-a141-91db4634cbfa" -H "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Dest: document" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate" -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Sec-Fetch-User: ?1" -H "TE: trailers" -d "url=&source=&authParams=&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=UHOV-7ELJ-Z7IY-5K80-RZ1G-YAHL-AUTB-4FQC&un=pritesh.pednekar%2B6%40webengage.com&active_region=us&we_region=us"
Thanks will try this.Cannot see the option that you mentioned. May have to update chrome but I can see a copy as cURL in both firefox and chrome.
FYI I’m trying to
Hmmm, interesting.
Maybe try the link above.
Paste on the left and change the option on the right to curl/bash… see if it gives you a different output. (Also I copied the curl conversion I did of your request above, try that too).
(I don’t know much about curl, this is just what works for me).
Not sure what broke this feature, though, it did used to work when copying the cURL command in chrome?
At least for the time-being converting to bash cURL does resolve this issue as a workaround. Ideally, this should be incorporated into the app without the need to use a third-party.
Thanks for everyones help!
Alternatively, you could try putting it through the Postman Interceptor (Proxy recorder) … essentially it does the same thing as chrome dev tools but inside Postman … Could be worth a look.
Awesome w4dd325 !
Your suggestion to install Postman Interceptor made my day.
For me, the following steps worked:
This issue persists, i’m experiencing it as well. 
Looks like a bug that started a few months ago.
User suggested Solutions require an extra step between copying from Chrome to pasting in postman, which is a bad user experience.
The whole point with using postman is to make it an easy experience.
Same curl snippet when pasted in the terminal - works as expected -
So it doesn’t seem like a problem in Chrome.
BTW for me chrome only supports copy as curl -
Attaching a screenshot
I’m experiencing this issue as well. Manually editing the cURL following this comment works, but it’s quite tedious having to do this for many requests.
This could potentially be added to the GitHub issues…
