Basic Curl Wrapper

http

#!/bin/sh

METHOD=$1
PAYLOAD=$2
HTTPCONF=$3
URL=$4

echo -n "You specified "; echo -n $#; echo " parameters."

# you specified 3 parameters
test -z $4 && test -f $1 && { METHOD=POST; PAYLOAD=$1; HTTPCONF=$2; URL=$3; }
test -z $4 && test -f $3 && { METHOD=$1; PAYLOAD=$2; HTTPCONF=$3; URL=$3; }

# you specified 2 parameters
test -z $3 && { METHOD=POST; PAYLOAD=$1; HTTPCONF=$2; URL=$2; }

test -f $URL && URL=`head -n1 $URL`

echo "Using..."
echo -n "Method: "; echo $METHOD
echo -n "Payload file: "; echo $PAYLOAD
echo -n "http conf file: "; echo $HTTPCONF
echo -n "URL Endpoint: "; echo $URL

sleep 2

curl --verbose --request $METHOD `tail -n +2 $HTTPCONF | tr -d '\n' | sed "s/;/ -H /g"` -d@$PAYLOAD $URL