How to use `curl` scripts to test RESTful web services
By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: May 1 2019
There may be better ways to do this, but when I was writing a mobile app, with the JavaScript client written in Sencha Touch and the server written with the Play Framework, I wrote some curl
scripts to simulate GET, POST, DELETE, and PUT request (method) calls to my Play Framework REST/RESTful web services.