Question

I am trying to send a DELETE request with a url parameter using CURL. I am doing:

curl -H application/x-www-form-urlencoded -X DELETE http://localhost:5000/locations` -d 'id=3'

However, the server is not seeing the parameter id = 3. I tried using some GUI application and when I pass the url as: http://localhost:5000/locations?id=3, it works. I really would rather use CURL rather than this GUI application. Can anyone please point out what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

The application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-type header is not required (well, kinda depends). Unless the request handler expects parameters coming from the form body. Try it out:

curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:5000/locations?id=3"

or

curl -X GET "http://localhost:5000/locations?id=3"