The examples within this document use cURL to demonstrate how to access theDatabase REST APIs.

To use cURL to access the REST API:

• Install cURL, as described in Quick Start.

• In a command window, set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of your local CA certificate bundle. For information about CA certificate verification using cURL, see: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html.

• Invoke cURL and specify one or more of the command-line options defined in the following table, as required, to direct its execution

  cURL Option	Description
  -d, --data @file.json	Identifies the request document, in JSON format, on the local machine.
  -F, --form @file.json	Identifies form data, in JSON format, on the local machine.
  -H	Defines one or both of the following: Content type of the request document Custom header, X-ID-TENANT-NAME, to identify the identity domain
  -i	Displays response header information.
  -u, --user username:password	Specifies the user name and password for the <ProductName> account.
  -X	Indicates the type of request (for example, GET, POST, and so on).

The following is an example syntax for cURL command:

curl -i -X GET -u <username>:<password> -H <request-header>:<value> https://<subdomain>.<domain>.com/<path>/<resource-path>