translate Postman post Request with Basic Auth to mingw64 curl and powershell On Windows 10

Question

I would like to translate a POST Request test from Postman to curl on Windows!

note: ip, username, password are illustrative for this question!

Consuming from Postman, I get 200 OK Code fine!

But, Trying to use curl from cmd is not working!

Checking on Postman the curl code

I was trying on Powershell

curl --location --request POST 'http://10.31.7.52/BdN_SMS_CXP/api/SendSMS' --header 'Authorization: Basic bWFyaWVsYTpZMFMkaSRfViZTLjQwNio=' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"ANI" : 3007209820}'

curl --location --request POST 'http://10.31.7.52/BdN_SMS_CXP/api/SendSMS' --header 'Authorization: Basic bWFyaWVsYTpZMFMkaSRfViZTLjQwNio=' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"ANI" : 3007209820}'

checking codification/decodification is fine.

Now directly with user and password, according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/27442239/811293

curl --location --request POST 'http://10.31.7.52/BdN_SMS_CXP/api/SendSMS' --user 'mariela:Y0S$i$_V&S.406*' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{"ANI" : 3007209820}'

Here my results.

When I use curl of mingw64 7.71.1 version, the command is misinterpreted, because I get a 407 error, Authentication required. It's not just a powershell problem solved with Remove-item alias:curl.

I suspect you should escape some characters, and use double commas " instead of single commas '.

What considerations should I have with $, _, &, . and * characters (if I should have it with any)?

How should I write the request in powershell (or mingw64 curl) for it to work?

Answer 1

The generated command is not powershell curl but cmd curl :

you can just use it in cmd as it is,

or if you want to use powershel use it as:

$command= "curl --location --request POST 'http://10.31.7.52/BdN_SMS_CXP/api/SendSMS' --header 'Authorization: Basic bWFyaWVsYTpZMFMkaSRfViZTLjQwNio=' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{""ANI"" : 3007209820}'"

cmd /c $command