curl command in Matlab - matlab

Question

I am trying to replicate a curl command which works fine on a unix machine:
curl -X POST --insecure <ENDPOINT> -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "<OTHER HEADERS>" -d #<PATH TO JSON FILE>
What Matlab command can I use to replicate this command on a Windows machine? I'm struggling to find a way to add the --insecure option
Many thanks

Answer 1

Let's use an example, I'm using resclient for emacs, but do no get scary for that
My goal is to amke this call with matlab:
#
# Request
#
:auth-token = abcd1234
:number := (+ 1 2 3 4)
:text := (concat "This is " ":num" "ber")
#
# Multiline variable referencing another variable
#
:common-headers = <<
Authentication: :auth-token
User-Agent: MyApp/1.0
Content-type: application/json
#
# ...and another one
:common-body = <<
{ "number": :number, "text": ":text" }
#
# Now, use them both in request
#
POST http://httpbin.org/post?q=1
:common-headers
:common-body
which result is:
{
"args": {
"q": "1"
},
"data": "{ \"number\": 10, \"text\": \"This is 10\" }",
"files": null,
"form": null,
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Charset": "utf-8;q=1, gb2312;q=0.5, iso-8859-1;q=0.5, big5;q=0.5, iso-2022-jp;q=0.5, shift_jis;q=0.5, euc-tw;q=0.5, euc-jp;q=0.5, euc-jis-2004;q=0.5, euc-kr;q=0.5, us-ascii;q=0.5, utf-7;q=0.5, hz-gb-2312;q=0.5, big5-hkscs;q=0.5, gbk;q=0.5, gb18030;q=0.5, iso-8859-5;q=0.5, koi8-r;q=0.5, koi8-u;q=0.5, cp866;q=0.5, koi8-t;q=0.5, windows-1251;q=0.5, cp855;q=0.5, iso-8859-2;q=0.5, iso-8859-3;q=0.5, iso-8859-4;q=0.5, iso-8859-9;q=0.5, iso-8859-10;q=0.5, iso-8859-13;q=0.5, iso-8859-14;q=0.5, iso-8859-15;q=0.5, windows-1250;q=0.5, windows-1252;q=0.5, windows-1254;q=0.5, windows-1257;q=0.5, cp775;q=0.5, cp850;q=0.5, cp852;q=0.5, cp857;q=0.5, cp858;q=0.5, cp860;q=0.5, cp861;q=0.5, cp863;q=0.5, cp865;q=0.5, cp437;q=0.5, macintosh;q=0.5, next;q=0.5, hp-roman8;q=0.5, adobe-standard-encoding;q=0.5, iso-8859-16;q=0.5, iso-8859-7;q=0.5, windows-1253;q=0.5, cp737;q=0.5, cp851;q=0.5, cp869;q=0.5, iso-8859-8;q=0.5, windows-1255;q=0.5, cp862;q=0.5, iso-2022-jp-2004;q=0.5, cp874;q=0.5, iso-8859-11;q=0.5, viscii;q=0.5, windows-1258;q=0.5, iso-8859-6;q=0.5, windows-1256;q=0.5, iso-2022-cn;q=0.5, iso-2022-cn-ext;q=0.5, iso-2022-jp-2;q=0.5, iso-2022-kr;q=0.5, utf-16le;q=0.5, utf-16be;q=0.5, utf-16;q=0.5, x-ctext;q=0.5",
"Authentication": "abcd1234",
"Content-Length": "38",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Extension": "Security/Digest Security/SSL",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"Mime-Version": "1.0",
"User-Agent": "MyApp/1.0"
},
"json": {
"number": 10,
"text": "This is 10"
},
"origin": "46.222.44.201",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/post?q=1"
}
// POST http://httpbin.org/post?q=1
// HTTP/1.1 200 OK
// Server: nginx
// Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:29:40 GMT
// Content-Type: application/json
// Content-Length: 1768
// Connection: keep-alive
// Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
// Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
// Request duration: 0.613051s
Let's transform it to a curl:
curl -i -H 'Content-type: application/json' -H 'User-Agent: MyApp/1.0' -H 'Authentication: abcd1234' -XPOST 'http://httpbin.org/post?q=1' -d '{ "number": 10, "text": "This is 10" }'
and finally translate it to matlab I recommend you to use urlread2 this is a matlab program from matlab fileexchange you only to register and you can dowload it. it was made by Jim Hokason, for recent matlab versions (2016) you can try this
So with urlread2 from here
the above request could be this:
>> %% Create the headers
>> hct = http_createHeader('Content-Type','application/json');
>> hua = http_createHeader('User-Agent','matlab');
>> ha = http_createHeader('Authentication','abcd1234');
>> %% method
>> method = 'POST';
>> body = '{"number":10, "text: "this is 10"}';
>> x = urlread2('http://httpbin.org/post?q=', method, body, [hct hua ha])
x =
{
"args": {
"q": ""
},
"data": "{\"number\":10, \"text: \"this is 10\"}",
"files": {},
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2",
"Authentication": "abcd1234",
"Content-Length": "34",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"User-Agent": "matlab"
},
"json": null,
"origin": "46.222.44.201",
"url": "http://httpbin.org/post?q="
}
For the insecure option, I do not think that this verify ssl certifiactes