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Asked: 2026-05-28T18:02:13+00:00

An API I’m trying to program to requires multipart/form-data content with the HTTP GET

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An API I’m trying to program to requires multipart/form-data content with the HTTP GET verb. From the command line I can make this work like this:

curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/json" -F grant_type=consumer_credentials -F consumer_key=$key -F consumer_secret=$secret https://example.com/api/AccessToken

which seems like a contradiction in terms to me, but it actually works, and from what I see tracing it actually uses GET. I’ve tried a bunch of things to get this working using PHP’s cURL library, but I just can’t seem to get it to not use POST, which their servers kick out with an error.

Update to clarify the question: how can I get php’s cURL library to do the same thing as that command line?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since they are insisting on HTTP GET, then just encode the form elements into query parameters on the URL you are GETing and use cURL’s standard get options instead of posting multipart/formdata.

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