Understand curl concepts, usage, and common parameters

• curl ( Official website documentation Github Wikipedia )

  curl：command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.

  Everything curl introduces curleverything about it, you can read it directly here .

  The function of curl is based on the network protocol to carry out network transmission to the specified URL.

• Chinese Information

  • Ruan Yifeng: curl usage guide curl website development guide
  • Detailed curl command parameters

• curl inserts data into InfluxDB

  Use curl to insert data into InfluxDB through the Http API . The data format needs to conform to the Line Protocol .

  # 使用POST方法发送到/query路径，创建数据库
  curl -i -XPOST http://localhost:8086/query --data-urlencode "q=CREATE DATABASE mydb"