Use cURL

The examples within this document use cURL to demonstrate how to access the Oracle Managed File Transfer REST API.

To use cURL to access the Oracle Managed File Transfer REST API:

• Install cURL, as described in Quick Start.

• In a command window, set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of your local CA certificate bundle. For information about CA certificate verification using cURL, see: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html.

• Invoke 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
  -d, --data @file.json	Identifies the request document, in JSON format, on the local machine.
  -F, --form @file.json	Identifies form data, in JSON format, on the local machine.
  -H	Use to define the content type of the request document.
  -i	Displays response header information.
  -u, --user username:password	Specifies the user name and password for the Oracle Managed File Transfer account.
  -X	Indicates the type of request (for example, GET, POST, and so on).

For example, the following example cURL command discovers an MFT source named src1:

curl -u jsmith:welcome1 -H "Content-Type:application/json"
 -H "Accept:application/json"
 -X GET http://example.com/mftapp/rest/v1/sources?searchFilter=src1