Convert curl request into http request?

I am trying to convert the curl request below into an HTTP request for the postman tool. The postman tool might not really matter in this question. Please tell me how I can convert curl to http.

curl -X POST -i 'https://a-webservice.com' -H X-apiKey:jamesBond007 -d MESSAGE-TYPE="pub.controller.user.created" -d PAYLOAD='a json object goes here!'

What I tried/learned: – Set headers content-type: json/application, X-apiKey

• from curl docs, -d option means we need to set content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Postman lets me set the request body using ONLY 1 of the 4 options- form-data, x-www-form-urlencoded, raw, binary. Can you show how I can convert the two -d options of curl into these options ?

I am confused how to put it all together.

Thanks!

Answer

The format of application/x-www-form-urlencoded data is just the same as a query string, so:

MESSAGE-TYPE=pub.controller.user.created&PAYLOAD=a json object goes here!

To confirm, you can dump the request data with curl itself, using the --trace-ascii option:

curl --trace-ascii - -X POST -i 'https://a-webservice.com' 
  -H X-apiKey:jamesBond007 -d MESSAGE-TYPE="pub.controller.user.created" 
  -d PAYLOAD='a json object goes here!'

--trace-ascii takes a filename as an argument but if you give it - it will dump to stdout.

The output for the above invocation will include something like this:

=> Send header, 168 bytes (0xa8)
0000: POST / HTTP/1.1
0011: Host: example.com
0024: User-Agent: curl/7.51.0
003d: Accept: */*
004a: X-apiKey:jamesBond007
0061: Content-Length: 73
0075: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
00a6:
=> Send data, 73 bytes (0x49)
0000: MESSAGE-TYPE=pub.controller.user.created&PAYLOAD=a json object g
0040: oes here!
== Info: upload completely sent off: 73 out of 73 bytes

So the same as what’s confirmed in the answer at Convert curl request into http request? that uses nc, but confirmed just using curl itself, with the --trace-ascii option.