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You can use cURL to make a GET request to eXist, by specifying -X GET to the curl
command and then the URI. For example, the following cURL command would
return a listing of the /db/apps collection in the database, as shown in Figure 13-16 :
curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/apps
Figure 13-16. Browsing the REST Server API with cURL
The default HTTP request method in cURL is GET , so you can
actually omit the -X GET parameter for conciseness if you wish.
Just as with retrieving a collection, you can retrieve the content of a resource in the
database by appending its name to the collection in the request URI. For example, the
following cURL command retrieves the resource some-document.xml from the collec‐
tion /db :
curl http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/some-document.xml
If you wish to redirect the output from cURL to a file, you can use
the -o argument (e.g., -o myfile.xml ). Also, if you wish to see the
HTTP request and response details as well as the content of the
response, you may also provide the -v argument to cURL for ver‐
bose output.