How to do a PUT request with cURL?

How do I test a RESTful PUT (or DELETE) method using cURL?

5 Answers

Using the -X flag with whatever HTTP verb you want:

curl -X PUT -d arg=val -d arg2=val2 localhost:8080

This example also uses the -d flag to provide arguments with your PUT request.

Quick Answer:

In a single line, the curl command would be:

1. If sending form data:

   curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" -F "key1=val1" "YOUR_URI"

2. If sending raw data as json:

   curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"key1":"value"}' "YOUR_URI"

3. If sending a file with a POST request:

   curl -X POST "YOUR_URI" -F 'file=@/file-path.csv'

Alternative solution:

You can use the POSTMAN app from Chrome Store to get the equivalent cURL request. This is especially useful when writing more complicated requests.

For the request with other formats or for different clients like java, PHP, you can check out POSTMAN/comment below.

An example PUT following Martin C. Martin's comment:

curl -T filename.txt 

With -T (same as --upload-file) curl will use PUT for HTTP.

curl -X PUT -d 'new_value' URL_PATH/key

where,

X - option to be used for request command

d - option to be used in order to put data on remote url

URL_PATH - remote url

new_value - value which we want to put to the server's key

I am late to this thread, but I too had a similar requirement. Since my script was constructing the request for curl dynamically, I wanted a similar structure of the command across GET, POST and PUT.

Here is what works for me

For PUT request:

curl --request PUT --url --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'bar=baz&foo=foo1'

For POST request:

curl --request POST --url --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data 'bar=baz&foo=foo1'

For GET request:

curl --request GET --url '