1. REST API for Oracle SOA Cloud Service on Oracle Public Cloud Machine
  2. Get Started

Install cURL

cURL is an open source, command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting various protocols including HTTP and HTTPs. The examples within this document use cURL to demonstrate how to access the REST API for Oracle SOA Cloud Service on Oracle Public Cloud Machine. To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL.

To install cURL on your system.

  1. In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the navigation menu.

  2. On the cURL Releases and Downloads page, locate the SSL-enabled version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and extract the executable to the desired folder.

When running cURL from a Windows command shell only, you must provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign CS certificate.

  1. Navigate to the cURL CA Certs page at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and download the cacert.pem SSL CA certificate bundle in the folder where you installed cURL.

  2. Open a command window, navigate to the directory where you installed cURL, and set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate bundle. For example, on a Windows system you would enter:

    C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=cacert.pem

You are now ready to send REST requests to the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance using cURL.For more information about: