Use cURL
The examples within this document use cURL to demonstrate how to access the BRM REST Services Manager API.
Task 1: Install cURL
To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL and provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the CA certificate store, such as Verisign. For more information about authentication, see "Authenticate".
The following procedure demonstrates how to install cURL on a Windows 64-bit system:
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In your browser, navigate to the cURL Releases and Downloads page at https://curl.se/download.html.
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Locate the version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and then install the software.
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Go to the cURL CA Certs page at https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html and then download the ca-bundle.pem SSL CA certificate bundle to the folder in which you installed cURL.
Task 2: Set Environment Variable for cURL
In a command window, set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE
, to the location of your local CA certificate bundle. For example:
C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=ca-bundle.pem
For information about CA certificate verification using cURL, see https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html.
Task 3: Start cURL
Start cURL and specify one or more of the command-line options defined in the following table, as required, to direct its execution.
cURL Option | Description |
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Identifies the file that contains the request body, in JSON format,
on the local machine. Alternatively, you can pass the request body
with -d "{id=5,status='OK'}" .
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Identifies form data, in JSON format, on the local machine. |
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Defines one or both of the following:
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Displays header information in the response. |
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Indicates the type of request method (for example, GET or POST). |