Quick Tip: Sending Newlines with cURL
Yikes, this took far too long to figure out!
I have a service which takes plain text multi-line input and outputs an object for each line, something like this:
Input
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Output
[ {line: "Line 1"}, {line: "Line 2"}, {line: "Line 3"} ] There’s a bit more to it than that, but that’s the gist.
I want to test my service with cURL, trying:
curl --data "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3" \ -H "Content-Type: text/plain" localhost:3000/parse This did not work.
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