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Re: Passing spaces to Mailchimp with JSON & Windows
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:47:38 +0100 (CET)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:47:38 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Owen Watson wrote:
> I'm trying to pass a JSON call to MailChimp via commandline Windows and not
> having much luck.
I don't think this is much of a curl issue. curl sends what you tell it to
send so you need to figure out what to send...
> I'm using curl --insecure -d {JSON call}
> https://us1.mailchimp.com/list/subscribe In the JSON call it works fine if
> there's no spaces, as you'd expect, but as soon as you introduce spaces,
> even if you replace them by + or %20 it falls over.
You need to read up on their API on how the JSON is supposed to look like. I
think JSON is rarely encoded. Are you possing not using any quotes around the
data, like in your example shows here?
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