Use cURL

The examples within this document use the cURL command line tool to demonstrate how to access the WebLogic Server REST 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 Verisign CA certificate. For more information about authentication, see Authenticate.

The following procedure demonstrates how to install cURL on a Windows 64 bit system.

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

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

4. 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:

   C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=ca-bundle.crt

You are now ready to send requests using 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.crt

For information about CA certificate verification using cURL, see http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html.

Task 3: Invoke cURL

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 file that contains the request body, in JSON format, on the local machine.
-F, --form @file.json	Identifies form data, in JSON format, on the local machine.
-H --header	Defines request headers.
-i	Displays response header information.
-u, --user <username>:<password>	Specifies the WebLogic Server administrator user name and password.
-X	Indicates the type of request (for example, GET, POST).

For example:

curl -i -X GET -u <username>:<password> -H <request-header>:<value> https://<subdomain>.<domain>.com/<path>/<resource-path>