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Asked: 2026-05-15T01:07:05+00:00

Like the title says. I’m sending a simple cUrl cmd from Win7 to CouchDB

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Like the title says. I’m sending a simple cUrl cmd from Win7 to CouchDB on my Linux box, and it doesn’t work. But if I run the same command in Linux, it works. I’m sending this:

curl -X POST 192.168.2.5:5984/test/testdoc -d '{"owner":{"fname":"test","lname":"ing"}}'

From windows, it keeps giving me a “error: bad request, reason:invalid UTF-8 JSON”.
I can run GET commands from windows just fine, I just can’t seem to POST to CouchDB.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unfortunately, the Windows shell (cmd.exe) uses quote marks differently from Mac OSX and Linux.

    The simplest fix is to avoid single-quotes and use double quotes, with the double-quotes in the JSON document escaped:

    curl -X PUT 192.168.2.5:5984/test/testdoc -d "{\"owner\":{\"fname\":\"test\",\"lname\":\"ing\"}}"
{"ok":true,"id":"testdoc","rev":"1-299729b3cb92a371136cb7331c66644d"}

    Another option is to install a different shell such as Bash for Windows: http://win-bash.sourceforge.net/. Then you can follow documentation and do your own experiments more easily.

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