query strings with curl

README.md

Note that you can do a GET request to construct query strings with curl.

# GET http://acme.org/tasks?status=overdue&since=today
curl --get http://acme.org/tasks -d status=overdue -d since=today

# GET http://httpbin.org/get?status=overdue&since=today&contains=bob%20jones
curl -d status=overdue                       \
     -d since=today                          \
     --data-urlencode "contains=bob jones"   \
     -G http://acme.org/search 

request.sh

# GET http://httpbin.org/get?status=overdue&since=today&contains=bob%20jones
curl -d status=overdue                       \
     -d since=today                          \
     --data-urlencode "contains=bob jones"   \
     -G http://httpbin.org/get

result.json

{
  "args": {
    "contains": "bob jones", 
    "since": "today", 
    "status": "overdue"
  }, 
  "headers": {
    "Accept": "*/*", 
    "Host": "httpbin.org", 
    "User-Agent": "curl/7.37.1"
  }, 
  "origin": "66.168.144.185", 
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get?status=overdue&since=today&contains=bob jones"
}