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curl.exe -X POST "https://api.inxpress.com/imcs_gateway/c_1/" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -D^
{^
"request_id":"pm77",^
"request_time":"2020-12-24",^
"account":"accountname",^
"password":"apikey",^
"gateway":"UK",^
"carrierCode":"C_1",^
"origin":{^
"city":"ROCHDALE",^
"postal_code":"OL16 5DB",^
"country":"GB"^
},^
"destination":{^
"city":"Bellville",^
"postal_code":"7530",^
"country":"ZA"^
},^
"product_code":"P",^
"content_type":"WPX",^
"weight_unit":"kg",^
"dimension_unit":"cm",^
"currency":"GBP",^
"insured_value":"3.00",^
"dutiable":true,^
"commercial_value":"5.00",^
"pieces":[^
{^
"name":"Piece 1",^
"weight":5.0,^
"height":8.0,^
"depth":12.0,^
"width":12.0,^
"quantity":1,^
"custom_value":10.0^
}^
]^
}
I'm trying to execute this batch file in windows but I must have a formatting problem with the data as the output is like this
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: request_id
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: request_time
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: account
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: password
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: gateway
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: carrierCode
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 8
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: city
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: postal_code
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: country
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 13
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: city
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: postal_code
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: country
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: product_code
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: content_type
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: weight_unit
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: dimension_unit
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: currency
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: insured_value
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: dutiable
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: commercial_value
curl: (3) [globbing] bad range specification in column 9
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched brace in column 1
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: name
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: weight
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: height
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: depth
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: width
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: quantity
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: custom_value
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1
curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 1

Answer 1

Capital -D option is not in my curl at least, maybe you meant -d aka --data?
Anyway the problem seems to be that curl understands your request as multiple command-line parameters rather than a request string for -D.
At least you have to add " right after -D and a space, and one at the end, and escape all " in the request as ^".
But even that may not be enough - then the easiest option is to read the request from a file with curl --data #filename-of-request.txt
If you want to keep everything in one file, try sending request data through a stream like this:
(
echo line 1 of your request
echo line 2 of your request
...................
echo line N of your request
) | curl --data #- OTHER-CURL-PARAMETERS-HERE
here:
echo something outputs something to stdout stream (default - on screen)
echo simply outputs its commandline so it's much more tolerant to special characters in the command line, but you may still need to escape some of them with ^
| (pipe) redirects echo's stdout into curl's stdin stream
( ... ) make cmd bunch several echo output together
please note: the output will include line breaks
instead you can try bunching up all the text into one echo with ^-at-line-end trick you used
--data #file makes curl read POST data from file
#- specifies stdin as file which is where echo output went