Running CURL commands in Windows 7 and 10

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Iā€™m using Postman to work with Taxify (made by Sovos) and their REST API.

I pull up the proper command, go to the ā€œCodeā€ section, and select cURL. I then copy the text there and use it to run the cURL command.

It works perfectly on the Mac but not on Windows. Iā€™ve tried installing cURL on Windows 7 and ran it using the natively installed cURL in Windows 10, but it fails every time on Windows.

Anyone have any suggestions or guidance? Iā€™m not sure why it doesnā€™t work.

Thanks,

Michael Frankel
Wizard Consulting Group

2

Can you share with us which error you are getting when running cURL?

3

Have you tried Cygwin? It works great for running Linux commands on Windows boxes, including curl.

4

Unfortunately, Iā€™m trying to run a command-line script in Windows from a 3rd party application, so using Cygwin will not help.

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OK - 2 versions of this. The first one is using the exact cURL command, copied directly out of Postman, with the line endings (which appear to work only in Unix-based systems) removed:

curl -X POST https://ws.taxify.co/taxify/1.1/core/JSONService.asmx/GetCodes -H ā€˜Content-Type: application/jsonā€™ -H ā€˜cache-control: no-cacheā€™ -d ā€˜{GetCodes:{Security:{Password:ā€œMY_API_KEYā€},CodeType:ā€œitemā€}}ā€™

This is the response I got:

curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

So then I added the option to ignore security certificate errors:

curl --insecure -X POST https://ws.taxify.co/taxify/1.1/core/JSONService.asmx/GetCodes -H ā€˜Content-Type: application/jsonā€™ -H ā€˜cache-control: no-cacheā€™ -d ā€˜{GetCodes:{Security:{Password:ā€œMY_API_KEYā€},CodeType:ā€œitemā€}}ā€™

Then I got this response:

{ā€œMessageā€:ā€œThere was an error processing the request.ā€,ā€œStackTraceā€:"",ā€œExceptionTypeā€:""}

The odd thing is that the first version of this works perfectly on a Mac.

Any suggestions would be welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael Frankel
Wizard Consulting Group

6

I would check the quotes.

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Windows requires double quotes. Had same problem

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Great - so you can cut and paste the cURL that runs almost everywhere (as is) but to get it to run in windows you have to edit the whole thing to use " and delimit them when they are in the body and swap the \ at the ends of lines for ^

Great Job MS - :frowning: