title: curl: (3) unmatched brace in URL position 1:
body: <p>I am running an Apache Solr tutorial from here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_6/solr-tutorial.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_6/solr-tutorial.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Solr is running and I can run queries in a web browser.</p>
  
  <p>The tutorial mentions <code>cURL</code> which I am unfamiliar with.</p>
  
  <p>I have unzipped <code>CURL</code> to <code>C:\Curl</code> and included Curl in the <code>PATH environment variable</code>: <code>C:\Curl\curl-7.63.0-win64-mingw\bin</code></p>
  
  <p>I am getting an error when running the Command below in a Windows command prompt.  I have googled to try and find a resolution to no avail:</p>
  
  <p>Code below:<br></p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Curl\curl-7.63.0-win64-mingw\bin&gt;curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name":"name", "type":"text_general", "multiValued":false, "stored":true}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>generates the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl: (3) unmatched brace in URL position 1:
  {name:name,
   ^
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) unmatched close brace/bracket in URL position 12:
  stored:true}}'
             ^
  {
    "responseHeader":{
      "status":400,
      "QTime":1},
    "error":{
      "metadata":[
        "error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException",
        "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"],
      "msg":"no stream",
      "code":400}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried adding a <code>-g</code> to turn off globbing.</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -g -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name":"name", "type":"text_general", "multiValued":false, "stored":true}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This generated an almost identical error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Curl\curl-7.63.0-win64-mingw\bin&gt;curl -g -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{"add-field": {"name":"name", "type":"text_general", "multiValued":false, "stored":true}}' http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
  
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  {
    "responseHeader":{
      "status":400,
      "QTime":1},
    "error":{
      "metadata":[
        "error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException",
        "root-error-class","org.apache.solr.common.SolrException"],
      "msg":"no stream",
      "code":400}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then tried removing the single quotes and escaping the double quotes, but then got the below error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -g -X POST -H Content-type:application/json --data-binary {\"add-field\": {\"name\":\"name\", \"type\":\"text_general\", \"multiValued\":false, \"stored\":true}} http://localhost:8983/solr/films/schema
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL
  {
    "responseHeader":{
      "status":500,
      "QTime":4},
    "error":{
      "msg":"Premature EOF: char=(EOF),position=11 AFTER=''",
      "trace":"org.noggit.JSONParser$ParseException: Premature EOF: char=(EOF),position=11 AFTER=''\r\n\tat org.noggit.JSONParser.err(JSONParser.java:419)\r\n\tat org.noggit.JSONParser.next(JSONParser.j
  ava:973)\r\n\tat org.noggit.JSONParser.nextEvent(JSONParser.java:1061)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.common.util.CommandOperation.parse(CommandOperation.java:285)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.common.util.Command
  Operation.readCommands(CommandOperation.java:350)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.common.util.CommandOperation.readCommands(CommandOperation.java:326)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.api.ApiBag.getCommandOperations(A
  piBag.java:289)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.getCommands(HttpSolrCall.java:1073)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrRequestParsers$1.getCommands(SolrRequestParsers.java:245)\r\n\tat o
  rg.apache.solr.schema.SchemaManager.performOperations(SchemaManager.java:77)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.handler.SchemaHandler.handleRequestBody(SchemaHandler.java:90)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.handler.Requ
  estHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:199)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:2541)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.execute(HttpSolrCall.java:709)\
  r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.HttpSolrCall.call(HttpSolrCall.java:515)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:377)\r\n\tat org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDi
  spatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:323)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1634)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHa
  ndle(ServletHandler.java:533)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:146)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)\
  r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:257)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.je
  tty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1595)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:255)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.
  ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1317)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:203)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(Serv
  letHandler.java:473)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1564)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:201)\
  r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1219)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:144)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jett
  y.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:219)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:126)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.je
  tty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:335)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.Hand
  lerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:132)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:531)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:352)\r\n\tat org.eclipse
  .jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:260)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:281)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillIn
  terest.fillable(FillInterest.java:102)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$2.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:118)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill
  .java:333)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:310)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java
  :168)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:126)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.
  java:366)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:762)\r\n\tat org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:680)\r\n\tat java.
  lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)\r\n",
      "code":500}}</p>
  
  <p>I know there are a lot of similar Q&amp;A's on SO regarding this issue but they are not quite the same and none of the solutions I have tried resolve my issue.</p>