I am able to post JSON using curl like below and able to get JSON output
curl -X POST -H Content-Type:application/json -d '{"xyz":"abc"} http://mymachine.com/test.jsp
output -
{"sucess":"pqr"}
But in my stage box I dont have curl so trying to do same using lynx
I tried below
echo -e '{"xyz":"abc"}\n---\n' | lynx -head 'Content-Type: application/json' -post_data http://mymachine.com/test.jsp
above command is not working, I am getting output {"error":"pqr"} which will come only when test service didnt receive any output.
Can please let me know what might be the issue here?
If you look at the lynx man page, you'll see that -head is for sending HEAD requests, it doesn't set a http header for the request.
There is no option listed in the man page that would set a request header, the content type for POST requests will always be application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
You'll probably have to find another tool to do the job, try to look if something useful is installed (wget, nc, ncat, bash, ...).
If you tell me what's available, I can probably give you a concrete example.