curl and HTTPie Reference

HTTP Methods

# GET
curl https://api.example.com/users
curl -s https://api.example.com/users          # suppress progress meter
curl -i https://api.example.com/users          # include response headers
curl -I https://api.example.com/users          # HEAD request (headers only)

# POST (JSON body)
curl -X POST https://api.example.com/users \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Alice","email":"alice@example.com"}'
curl -X POST https://api.example.com/users -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @payload.json

# PUT
curl -X PUT https://api.example.com/users/42 \