• Reading a URL via GET:

  curl http://example.com/
  

• Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT):

  curl http://example.com/users/1 -XPUT
  

• Sending data with a request:

  curl http://example.com/users -d"first_name=Bruce&last_nam...
  

Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.

This talk will be in German with English slides.

Introduction

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