On my local machine, I want to use cURL as an HTTP client like so:
curl -X POST -F 'email=derp@example.com' -F 'password=blink182' http://example.com
The above curl statement uses the HTTP POST method which can be retrieved in PHP like so:
echo $_POST['email']; // derp@example.com
echo $_POST['password']; // blink182
However, what I really wanted is the data from the PHP input stream php:://input and not from the POST method $_POST.
The PHP input stream can be retrieved in PHP like so:
$input = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'php://input' ) );
echo $input->email; // derp@example.com
echo $input->password; // blink182
Which brings me to my question, how to send PHP input stream data using curl?
From the PHP website:
php://inputis a read-only stream that allows you to read raw data from the request body.php://inputis not available withenctype="multipart/form-data".
So if you specify the Content-Type as application/json using -H "Content-Type: application/json" you ought to get it in the input stream
complete example:
curl -X POST https://reqbin.com/echo/post/json
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'
-d '{"email":"derp@example.com","password":"blink182"}'